Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa
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Office Aisle
Oh office aisle Your pens & paper Draw me like new lotto games Unscratched promises and wagers of wonders you'll coax from my brain
tiny tubes of unleaked stories desperate whispering of the page former trees that beg to feel the carving of a fine point's blade
Pilot, Bic & EverSharp artists pads & index cards Sanford, Cross & Mead & Parker Paper Mate & Magic Marker
Spiral pads of every size One will surely make me wise And see that journal bound in leather? Now there's a key to writing better.
Regardless of the store I've entered I'm drawn to stationery center compelled to find there something new in lead or tip or grip or hue
How do you suck me in each time? And how come I can never find one of those million pads or pens when siezed by actual writing whims
Oh office aisle I swear I'm through I'll never buy again from you I'm headed for the Staples Door and..
wait..
I've never seen THAT pen before...
- January 2002
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