THE NEGLECTED POET
Sometimes I feel I have something to say,
but nothing that earthshaking to bore you with.
So I dress it up in a clever way
of being said, apply some pith
or padding, and try passing off
mundane conclusions as bouncy songs.
But no one's fooled, and people scoff,
telling me verse like mine belongs
in the silent regions of some drawer
so readers won't be victimized
by mousy rhymes that try to roar
but are pathetically under-lionized.
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