A contemporary poem about a thing that will not behave, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The thing would not behave for anyone. It sat among the tools like a black sheep, refusing every measured explanation. At last we stopped naming the fault. It became almost beautiful then, which was an inconvenient result.
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