I want to write a poem
but I don't know what to write.
The right words, I don't know'em;
and my head feels rather light.

My lyric voice is hoarse,
my writing hand is weary,
my drafts are awful coarse,
my themes are very dreary.

I want to write in verse.
I want to slant a rime.
But my muse is perverse:
she's rendered me a mute!

My metric is inconstant.
Apparently, I've lost the ability to count.
I can't even keep
the same number of lines in every
stanza.

At least I haven't resorted
to visual poetry just yet.
Nothing against it, mind you,
but to a formalist like me
that would be my last breath
when I'm already fa
                               ll
                                 in
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                                      d
                                        ow
                                             n.

I just want to write a poem, but it seems I don't know how.