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I retract my statement.
  
Yes, that statement  
and that one.  
  
Indeed, I retract    
all the statements I've made  
through these pitiable attempts  
at poetry.  
  
It's not my area, this.  
  
I belong in the corps of the mediocre blog,    
that is if I dare to inflict yet more    
of this unnatural bile upon our poor  
letter-cluttered world.  
  
I dabble, I don't swim in the seas of intensity  
nibble, don't chomp on the muscles of life  
and eyes turned down, I twiddle my thumbs    
in the company    
of imagination.  
  
My metaphors are used -  
words badly recycled to mar my page  
my thoughts revert  
to skipping tracks    
I foam and churn    
to extract  
express.  
  
Poetry requires perspective and flair.  
  
I'll try it again when I have some.