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I am too tired.
My bones creak.
This is not the stuff
 poets dream of.
These are not the words
 which enchanted you.
This is all that's left
 fourteen hours,
 seven days,
Real world.
My bones are not my bones.
My eyes ache.
There is no poetry
 in the cutting of code.
There is no poetry
 in me.


July 24, 1998
© Lela Kaunitz