I wanted to be useful so I wrote a poem–

It was about Orpheus and his birds

So every bird was in it

All the birds in the world

And every bird that has ever been

And you know

It was not beautiful but terribly alive

Like a god who assumes a single shape

In sudden wind.

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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