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It’s time for a new muse
After all your dynamic poems
Become one flattened line after another
That get reduced to melancholic blatherings
And simply reek
Of betrayal.
You let the muse make you suffer
And now
They’re making your art suffer?
Set them free.
Set YOU free.
Monica Viera is a Puerto Rican author and painter from East LA. You can find more of her work on www.wordsbymonica.com.