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Original Art and Poetry by Ingrid H. Turner

 

"All I Ever Wanted"

 

All I ever wanted to do

was write

 

p o e t r y.

 

"You can't make a living

like that.

 

And what are you?”

is the

 

u n s p o k e n

 

question - if

“you're not

 

p r o d u c i n g ?” 

 

So I left it -

(well

 

m o s t l y)

 

a long time.

 

In search of

dollars and cents

 

and dollars

and sense

 

and worth

 

- y - n e s s

 

desperate

worth -

- less -

- ness!

 

Until, exhausted

from digging

for

purpose

 

I collapsed

hard

bitter

ruined.

 

And poetry - she

 

s a v e d

 

me from that

fate of

lifeless

waste.

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