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February 11, 2018
By CatNovelist GOLD, Berkeley, California
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CatNovelist GOLD, Berkeley, California
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"If you can quit writing, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer."

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prehistoric ritual
old as the ships that Blackbeard sailed on
for even the most ferocious pirate
must have wanted to write down what he did
make a monument of himself
at least in the eyes of the ink-bearers,
they wrote down what they saw and thought themselves wise
told everyone that spinning tales was humankind’s refuge
but nowadays everyone can write
yet very few people tell their story

© Michael H., Mildford, CT

The author's comments:

I was inspired to write this from the Ink It poetry contest prompt. I think this poem is true, at the very least. I think that's all I wanted it to be.

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