Physical aches and suffering
lend themselves reluctantly
to poetic expression, our
expectations from the art
being pleasant reaction.
But the versifier, ill,
covets distraction and thus
takes pen in trembling hand
and reaches out to others
in hope the stretch may
ease the loneliness of pain.
— John Clifford lives in Lawrence.
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