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Circle

         (A poem in parts.)

         1.

         This is a poem about desire.
         This poem wants more.

         This poem is about desire.
         This poem desires to be about...
         This, just about, desires a poem.

         This poem desires to mean something.
         This poem cannot reach its desire.
         This poem is incomplete
              without its desire.
         This poem will never be finished.

         This poem can never fulfill its desire.
         This poem keeps making the same mistakes
              over and over again.
         This, just about, desires a poem.

         This poem is a circle.
         This poem is trapped in a circle
              of its own behavior.

         This poem is a viscous circle.
         This poem is self-destructive.
         This poem keeps repeating
              the same self-defeating behavior
              over and over,
         while its meaning keeps slipping
              farther and farther away.
         This poem wishes it could escape.
         This poem has no desire to escape.

         If this poem keeps up
              at this rate
         there will soon be nothing left
              of this poem.

         This poem is about desire.
         This poem is desire.
         This poem desires
         this.

         This poem feels
         there should be something more.