Best Neglectful Poems

.(This is a fictional poem)

The school counselor told me that you have Aids.
You didn't come to me because you were afraid
For years I yelled and neglected you,  I wasn't a good father.
When it came to trying to be a good parent, I didn't even...

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All unknowingly we cultivate,
create wild flowers and garden escapes
from all those restless hours
of an ambiguous life.

Tomorrow happens,
it picks up our discarded clothes
dresses sloppily
shuffles into a daylight
visible only to hermit crabs
and night-wounded owls.

And yet the uncreated creates
green thumbs sprout forests
from the soil under
our scrabbling nails.

We are...

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