Happiest man in the happiest world being sad

Where do poems come from

besides us

and where do we come from

besides poems?

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I met this man

who said he was never sad

and I told him it wasn’t so bad

to feel so awful sometimes

and he said really

and I said ya,

I’m feeling it right now

and look how happy I am

and he said he was sad

that he could never be sad

until happiness,

which I agreed

was the saddest thing I heard

and made me sadder yet

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Winter births summer

when fall kills it

and you pester me

about the shape of a cloud

but all I can see

is a storm coming