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Successful love is a good, long conversation
and because love seldom works out
there are stories, poems, and plays—
the poet talking to those he doesn’t know—
because love between him and another failed.
The paradox: when you lose at love,
you write those songs others call love,
which are quite the opposite, since lack of love
caused them to be.
Take this poetry.
They say I’m creative. My imagination
is lending fire to yours. No. I’m lonely.
I failed before and I’m failing again.
My creativity is the child of failure
and nothing can satisfy you here.
Apologize to the one you love. Leave this poem.
Get out, get out.