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Poetry

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VITAL NECESSITY

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by UNWILTED

by UNWILTED

what i
must write
cannot
be written.

what cannot
be written
is what
i must write.

i must
write or risk
being
unwritten.

being
unwritten
is what i must
risk when
i write
what i write.