9.23.2006
Poem I just wrote partly to make Bryan Miller pissed but mostly just for fun
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When I was a kid
because I read a lot of books
I thought I should think that
there was no such thing as happiness
Then later I suspected that
happiness was not impossible
only impossible to notice
until after it was gone
But when I had none of it
I thought if it ever returned
I would know what happiness was
and enjoy it for a while
And soon enough it did return
long enough for me to know
and left just as soon as I knew
it didn’t want me to.
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When I was a kid
because I read a lot of books
I thought I should think that
there was no such thing as happiness
Then later I suspected that
happiness was not impossible
only impossible to notice
until after it was gone
But when I had none of it
I thought if it ever returned
I would know what happiness was
and enjoy it for a while
And soon enough it did return
long enough for me to know
and left just as soon as I knew
it didn’t want me to.
# posted by will hubbard @ 6:14 PM 
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oh come on, you read a lot of books when you were a kid too. you wouldn't be a poet if you didn't, right? I would worry about that line seeming self-congratulatory if it werent for the painfully mundane thought that follows it. and I think the voice there is meant to sound a little naive/precocious, mirroring the rhetoric that changes as the voice does later.
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