<\/p>\n
She said\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 it was<\/p>\n
stupid\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 meaningless\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 empty<\/p>\n
this poem.<\/p>\n
That it did nothing for her —<\/p>\n
no thing depends upon<\/p>\n
a red wheel<\/p>\n
barrow<\/p>\n
glazed with rain<\/p>\n
water.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Yet, she aspired to greatness.<\/p>\n
Cracking shells with her dull pen<\/p>\n
she looked for the elusive pearl<\/p>\n
to string around her slender neck.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She aspired to greatness<\/p>\n
with an ungreat full mind.<\/p>\n
And I two rows back<\/p>\n
struck dumb<\/p>\n
by her thick, reaching thighs<\/p>\n
and the<\/p>\n
vain pounding of her hard head,<\/p>\n
tried to overlook her inconsistencies<\/p>\n
thinking I might<\/p>\n
see eternity in a grain of sand,<\/p>\n
that I might<\/p>\n
jump down from my high and firy cross.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But I could not,<\/p>\n
the farmer in my green soul<\/p>\n
knowing<\/p>\n
that so much does depend upon<\/p>\n
a red wheel<\/p>\n
barrow<\/p>\n
glazed with rain<\/p>\n
water.<\/p>\n
That so much does depend upon<\/p>\n
empty beauty<\/p>\n
full<\/p>\n
filled with in<\/p>\n
significance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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