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Wadded Up

Crumble you up  

Like a mistaken sheet in a sketch book,

Drain its wayward color from my life 

To puddled hues 

On the floor,

Toss the wad to the heap

Of misguided lines and realities,

What I want and what is there

Don’t meet in the width of  pencil lines,

Perspective a-kilter-ed,

not meeting the horizon line,

Not even a study in abstraction

But a distillation of the red of the heart

Seeping into the fibers of the paper

Rendering it failed and destroyed

And utterly useless

Except as filler in a hole.