POETRY AND PROSE

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a poem about being too poor for expensive words

Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash

The more nonsensical it seems
The more elusive the deduction has to be
The more flowery the language
The more seeds can be planted

— to grow away from the soil

I’ve practiced wizardry
of the delusional kind
A simple floating head
pretending to wield power
but in the end
no more than a little girl
I was

And even if you sail the ships
of a thousand captains
draw the pen
of a thousand poets

tear each word
away from each limb

Through it all
the expensive words flounder
and the beautifully ordinary
is heartbreak worth
a thousand tales