Variation on a Theme
Therí Alyce Pickens
Today's poem is by Therí Alyce Pickens
Variation on a Theme
after Gwendolyn Brooks and other furious flowers
We tired, two syllables, no are. We
real tired cuz we tried to listen for real for real.
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