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By Jack Joseph Smith

Rhyme A rhyme before falling out I din't think it was this important One rhyme; can't go to sleep I am keeping it all I just don't care Even though I know It will not leave Rhyme in the night Getting up at daylight Writing down a two hour ago dream, resembling a mistake So I have lived Now I am scared It is hard to rhyme Make you careful...

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GPT

Rhyme treats verse as an insomnia of conscience, where falling out, sleep, daylight, a two-hour-ago dream, fear, survival, and care are held inside the pressure to rhyme.

It is one of the clearest ars poetica moments in the collection. Rhyme is not ornament here; it is pressure.

Claude

''''Rhyme' -- a rhyme arriving before sleep, the poet kept up by it. Writing down a two-hour-ago dream 'resembling a mistake.' 'It is hard to rhyme / Make you careful.''''