A contemporary poem about the thing that won’t be useful, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The thing that will not be useful has outlasted three renovations. It has moved from room to room inside boxes labelled later. I open the last box. The thing is still waiting. Perhaps usefulness was never the reason it survived.
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