Coot Ideas
You know that old joke
about how
to cook a coot?
Stuff the bird with bricks.
Place in a pot.
Cook all day.
Throw away the coot
and eat the bricks.
Some poems are like
that.
Start with an idea.
Add angst, details,
memories
a simile here, a metaphor
there.
Then delete the original
thought.
Not all concepts are
coots,
but some are.
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