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Negative Capability

Succeeding as a poet means you know
you're nobody. Writing your name in water,
you dissipate, dissolving in the flow.
Succeeding as a poet means you know
you're planting rows of seedlings in the snow.
Not truth but mere oblivion is Time's daughter.
Succeeding as a poet means you know.
You're nobody, writing your name in water.

Susan McLean

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