someone will take you, poem
don’t give up
keep fighting the good fight
chin up

oh, damn
you don’t have a chin
you are so far only made of two
stanzas on a page

let’s pretend the first line
is a pompadour haircut
the second your eyeline
the third your chin

keep that line held up
don’t worry about
the anatomy of
the rest of
the lines.

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JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. His poems have appeared in Gargouille and The Other Herald, among other places. He blogs at jddehartpoetry.blogspot.com.