A young poster asks "Can you explain Poetry to me?"
No, I cannot help you
Poetry is an arrow
Pointing off a cliff
It says "Don't jump!"
If you do, you've missed the ship.
If you think
"Thank goodness that was there!"
You've missed the lesson too
Without the arrow
Jumping the cliff
Would never have occurred to you.
Finally you grasp the irony
Of the mislaid instruction
You say "Maybe it means I could have jumped?"
Another erroneous deduction.
Finally you realize
How strange these puzzles feel
And the poem was
to make you feel THAT,
Now you've got it for real.
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