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# Bleeding Edge
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/bleeding-edge/
- Published: 2022-02-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: can a poem make you bleed?
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

can a poem make you bleed?

as I risk a paper cut  
leafing through these stylized pages  
by pontificating sages  
even those that time forgot  
writing was their only creed...

they are likely to succeed

but their chance is sure to dwindle  
were I switching to a Kindle