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# A Poet's Curse
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/a-poets-curse/
- Published: 2021-11-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: my words are trapped on dusty shelves where Oxford dictionaries stand refusing to arrange themselves in ways that aren't plainly bland labeled pedestrian or worse I'd rather they stayed on the shelf and yet some anima...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

my words are trapped on dusty shelves  
where Oxford dictionaries stand  
refusing to arrange themselves  
in ways that aren't plainly bland  
labeled pedestrian or worse  
I'd rather they stayed on the shelf  
and yet some animating curse  
drives me to immolate myself

so here are some that I've let out  
now back to worry and self doubt