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Colin Dardis - Swimming Around the Inkwell

from One Minute Poems by Rancid Idols Productions

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Swimming Around the Inkwell

I have known a few poets
who gave up
the good fight
and stopped writing.
They have not stopped altogether in life,
and have gone on to other
worthy applications
such as further education, unemployment
and generally getting on with things
instead of swimming around the inkwell
endlessly.

I say,
if the fight is truly good,
then you can never lose.

And it’s a poor scrap of a losing battle
when each fist is a cliché,
with no blood left in your words.
Lost are the victories
of the Imagists, the Romantics,
the Lakes, the visionaries.
Instead, today,
we drown.

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from One Minute Poems, released October 6, 2022
from the collection Apocrypha: Collected Early Poems (Cyberwit, 2022)
www.cyberwit.net/publications/1988
www.amazon.co.uk/APOCRYPHA-Early-Collected-Colin-Dardis/dp/9395224002

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