she wrote a poem

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"she wrote a poem"

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"she wrote a poem"

She didn't realize it, but she

wrote a poem

that jolted me from

where I sat in the midst of

a conversation, a

thought, a pondering of

roman civilization

Veni

Vidi

Vici

she talked of "paisleigh"

and spelt it wrong while I looked

in the dictionary, my eye

entangled by the entry

sovereignty

association;

two words the same length, joined forever

in what professionals may call

politics

but I call it a

paradox,

a contradiction

I didn't realize it, but she

wrote a poem.


[first published in Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, WindScript, Volume 12. Image generated by AI via Stable Diffusion - I thought I'd change it up a little for this final poem.]

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