Pears

Would say this to mean that.

Would not know ecstatic recognition.

Would form incomplete senses.

Would mean incomplete sentences.

Would smell in the morning her trunk’s bark.

Would touch the shoulder of her afternoon.

Has little hope of seeing the dark shells of stars.

Hears that when this is meant.

Would look for hours at the carved horse

     to see the enclosed bicycle.

Would wonder what is taking the proverbial dove so long.

Would know boring as another word for jugular.

Would taste the steel of the river

     to know the soft of the shore.

Would do this by invitation only.

Would compare with pebbles anything asked.

Would do this with squirrels, arches,

     nipples or abutments.

Would do this to be remembered.

Would be forgotten.

Would be forged to be her anvil.

Has been mistranslated.

Fights the idea of predetermination.

Cannot explain very base motivation.

Would spin four stories around

     the crushing deceit of two tales.

Would only discern four senses.

Would know that six exist.

Would still mean sentences

     when senses is the subject.

Would cull the paragraph from the book.

Would pull the sentence from the paragraph.

Would parse the word from the sentence.

Would pare the letter from the word.

Would suck the intent from the letter.

Would not need the desire to be heard.

Sees in the evening the dark stars on shells.

Would long to swim in the undertow.

Would look for the offered branch immediately.

Would find the hold dank and prepossessing.

Would dwell in the hold of abiding piety.

Would separate piety from sanctity.

Would leave the subject discretionary.

Would by discretionary mean one.

One would mean one when discretionary is the subject.

Would leave the subject to the listener’s discretion.

Would realize that discretion is almost homonymic

     for discreation.

Would leave the subject to the listener’s discreation.

Has already decreated the subject.

Knows decreate to be not unlike deny.

Knows decreate to be not deny.

Knows that the listener is more likely a reader.

Sees this will as not free.

Nor necessarily captive.

Would wonder how this ties into the science of grammar.

Would wonder how this ties into the known senses.

Would not and would mean sentences

     when the subject is senses.

Would look out the window for a branch.

Has flattened the earth to think of it as a globe.

Finds the equator better imagined on a flat surface.

Wonders where the Here Be Monsters sightings are now.

Would see them everywhere if not for the window,

     the flat earth,

     the proverbial dove,

     this branch.

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