A contemporary poem about no use for the beautiful, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The beautiful thing refuses a purpose. It cannot hold water, keep time or make a person stay. I place it where the morning reaches it. That is enough work for one object. At dusk, its uselessness shines. I begin to suspect I have been busy with the wrong kind of life.
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