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A Letter to a Sleeping Man

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Dear William Blake
I apologize.
We cannot read
as with your eyes.

Your poems all can
mean a lot,
or very little,
true meaning forgot.

But do we read
Too much from words?
And make so much more
out of what we’ve heard?

Or do I make the mistake
in the words that I write?
For do I lack the meaning
like your Tyger in the night?

The blade of art
pierces so.
There is so much we want to
but Cannot know.
Written after class, where we explicated the poem "The Tyger" by William Blake.

Sometimes I think the curtains were just blue because the author wanted them to be, you know?
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