Lazy Poetry

I taught you how to read

my lazy poetry,

but I couldn't make you know

what was plainly there
between the lines.

So, I never really knew

if you ever really heard

my heart beating

in these measured words

for you.

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"I spoke bad poetry." Sunny Day Real Estate 5/4

"Drink up baby, look at the stars. I'll kiss you again between the bars where I'm seeing you there, with your hands in the air, waiting to finally be caught." Elliott Smith Between the Bars

"Let a vast assembly be,    
And with great solemnity    
Declare with measured words, that ye   
Are, as God has made ye, free."

P.B. Shelley The Mask of Anarchy