Some poems are impossible.
Some poems about poems
are impossible.
Some poems about poems about
girls are impossible.
Some poems about poems about girls
Who are question marks
are impossible.
Every line in a poem about a poem
about a girl
Who is a question mark
is false and therefore
is impossible.
Every word in the line in the poem
about a poem
about a girl
Who is a question mark
is a calamitous mistake
and is false and therefore
is impossible.
Every letter of every word
ever written
in the line
in the poem
about the poem
he wrote
about the girl
Who was a question mark
before she left
was a disastrous mistake
That was false
from the beginning
and therefore
is impossible.
The next word produced
by halting stroke
in the line
in the poem
he wrote
about the poem
about the girl
Who was a question mark
but who left
after a disastrous period
in a relationship
Pairing of human and human
that is a calamitous mistake
will be false
Will be poetic
about a pain
that no poem knows
and therefore
is impossible.
The last word produced
in fevered slashes
in the line
in the poem
about the poem
he wrote about the girl
Who lied about question marks
and periods
and who left
with no effort
at staying
in the pairing of
Human and human
that is still a calamitous mistake
but that produced
A beautiful accident
that is still false
that is not poetic
but erases
Every line in every poem
about a poem
about a girl
Who abused punctuation
when rewriting the pain
that no poem knows
is false, that no
poem knows
is false and therefore
Wants to be
a poem about a poem
about a girl
in a time
when lines and words
and letters
To stop the poem
about the poem
will be impossible
and the poem
will grow older with me
a fevered slash
A period
A halting stroke
of a question mark:
false false false
false false.
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