A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Monday, April 27, 2020

instructive

To construct a negative system, begin
with a mirror and find within
your materials to build. There may
require a change of outfit, or expression,
or several changes. Try no outfit,
no expression. Try all of them.
Stretch your face and eyes, get
inside your comfort zone and press
and bang to get out again, until those walls
have hemmed you in. Until the exits
are pretend. Practice until you forget
the purpose of perfect. Then,
step away, and fail to remember
what you were again.

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