Because of the World We Live In
My attention isn’t long enough
for poems of more than one page.
Give me the pithy wisdom
of haiku or a triolet.
Sonnets are a stretch
but still doable.
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I feel like this sometimes, too. Love the oblique relationship of title to poem.
Attention spans. Well, the words have to matter, don’t they.