Better Than God

Peter Porter

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We do Not Write the Way We Are

Posted By Peter Porter on Thursday 22nd Apr 2010
 

My Mother was more a Small Investor
than she was Queen Clytemnestra
but she bought me shares in dreams,
in doing not what is, but seems -
you start out rhyming, she declared,
but go your own way into dread
with bed sores and bad words.

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