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June 2009 
For the Ambitious
Posted on Sep 19th, 2008
by 
Melinda
Melinda
Your ambitions are vast
You spoke of becoming a poet
One doesn't just "become" a poet does one?
Instead: become a worker
Learn how to place one gritty brick on top of another
learn how to unravel fine embroidery
without damaging the delicate cloth
Discover how to work - one breath at a time
Go ahead:
take lessons in breathing, eating, sleeping
And, as you do this:
don't forget your ambitions
common as they are
for they remind you of the width
and the depth
of your intent
Use them to see
what this is about
Then go and work
Work will be its own poetry
Then
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