The Garbled Walkway
A-lotta times words trip you up.
Most times they ain't your own.
You found them under foot;
slipped from some shoddy speaker's mouth.
We're too lazy to brush em away
They make in part our path.
I took to picking them up
after stumbling over a few.
Gotta hold them to the light
see if they make sense.
Many a path is shiny lies.
Many a diamond is made of glass.
Many a stumble makes this path.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 380 |
Words | 77 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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