If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.
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We work in rain,heat, snow, sleet.
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Let him repeat that prayer,
the prayer that night follows day,
that life follows death, that in time
we find our lives.
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It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.
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The world takes up its trades; the man his wits,
And, bottom up, he mumbles from the deep,
"Life was a dream, Oh, may this death be sleep.
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