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straddling words

By Ed Higgins

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we all do it, of course

but poets especially:

like bareback bull riders

bone-broken astride

the arching back

words buck, rear, kick–

spin and twist to throw

the writer off the page

 

a severe arse ache

trying to pound

words creatively

out of the brain’s chute

of self-mutilation

onto the blank page

 

looking for control

still mounted while

constantly off balance

 

mostly words

never quite manage

to fully hold on

to not fall off

into language’s

dust-filled arena

 

the straddling ends

intentionally

or not

 

trying to make sense

of the world’s unmanageable

tragic ride

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