A contemporary poem about the wrong function, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object keeps performing the wrong function. A clock offers shade; a mirror keeps receipts. I stop asking what they are for. Use is a narrow word. At sunset, the mirror shows my hands full of things I never meant to carry.
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