Beauty Be Wasted Not on Me
a poem
May not an instance of beauty be wasted on me
Because I was too preoccupied standardizing goodness
Using my own malnourished understanding.
May I not misjudge cacophonous children's games,
Wasteful experimentation, and fights to get more
Because I am parsing the day into duty and spoiled delights.
May their neediness, sleeple…
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