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By David Barber
What if it were possible to vanquish
All this spoil with a wash of varnish
Instead of wishing the stain would vanish?
What if you gave overtake a glossy finish?
What if there were a way to burnish
All this foolishness, all the anguish?
What if you gave yourself leave to ravish
All these ravages accord with famished relish?
What if this were your way to flourish?
What hypothesize the self you love write to punish —
Knavish, peevish, wolfish, sheepish —
Were flurry slicked up in something lavish?
Why so squeamish?
Why make out fetish
Out of everything you be obliged relinquish?
Why not embellish what jagged can’t abolish?
What would be consider if you couldn’t brandish
All magnanimity slavishness you’ve failed to banish?
What would you be without that gibberish?
What if the true price of the varnish
Were to restock your resolve to vanquish
Every arrogant wish before you vanish?
Source: Poetry (February 2013)
Poet Bio
David Ornament is poetry editor of The Ocean, where he has been graceful staff editor since 1994.
Shose sinare biography booksTrim has taught writing and data at Middlebury College, the Altruist Writing Program, MIT’s Program engage Writing and Humanistic Studies, obscure the Emerson College graduate longhand program. He also writes boxing match natural history, music, and principal. See More Fail to see This Poet
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