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Old Poet Interrogated
by
Donal Mahoney

A student asks the old poet why
he has spent so many years
writing. The old poet says

no one’s asked him that before.
He needs a minute to answer.
Finally he says writing a poem

is like becoming a father. You do it
because of the process and not
because of the poem.

A poem doesn’t always arrive
but it’s the process that
keeps him writing.

--Submitted by Donal Mahoney on 2016-12-24.

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