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You ask why poets speak so often

In the language of goodbyes.

It’s because beginnings take them by surprise.

Love comes and hammers them,

And then the poor fools are lost for words.

They abandon their pens, and their fingers

Itch for other things: buttons, nipples, zips—

For everything but the poor abandoned pen.