The Penman

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Oh pen wounds inside volumes!
Write our wrongs along the lines
This plot laid bare in its doom
and the irony of its crime

For we craft the paragraph
and we diagram our dialogue
laying out each tear and every laugh
Every word in all these songs

'You're not my type!'
said the paper plain
Though twas an odd gripe
He usually didn't complain

Tip then tap the writer rapped
upon the keys anyway
wearing out his thinking cap
he burnt the night away

Pour me wine for whiny words
and cut the capers! How absurd!
Drip the ink and tip the brim
empty these themes within

One more chapter and one more verse
before these visions disperse
One more thought for page to keep
before the penman nods to sleep

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