[MD] On the Difficulty of Drawing Oneself Up by Kay Ryan

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On the Difficulty of Drawing Oneself Up
       by  Kay Ryan

One does not stack.
It would be like
a mouse on the back
of a mouse
on a mouse's back.
Courses of mice,
layers of shivers
and whiskers,
a wobbling tower
mouse-wide,
with nothing more
than a mouse inside.






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Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.........
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