Life is a poem you write yourself But it seems you are always copying Until you reach the point where All your metaphors are lost and Your similes are someone else's And you want to say a word like Well... like... Glom! or Gomblefizzle. or Hingumbly? but You get scared and write another Metaphor. published: Alberta Poetry Yearbook, 1969 The Creative Urge, Third Quarter, 1972 Salt #9, Summer 1973 Ball State University Forum, Vol. XV, No. 4, Autumn 1974 |