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Foll[[insertion]] o [[/insertion]]ing advice to do nothing, I wrote two poems.

Poems may be much to say : I've never published any poetry. Poetry is probably my way of experimenting. Anyway, here is Poem number 1 : it could be set to music, and called [[underlined]] Jimmy's Blues [[/underlined]].

Imagination
creates the situation.
And, then, the situation
creates imagination.

It may, of course,
be the other way around :
Columbus was discovered
by what he found.

And here is the mid-night hour :

Death is easy.
One is not compelled to understand
that moment,
which, anyway, occurs
over and over and over.
Lord,
sitting here, now,
with my boy with a tooth-ache,
in the bed, yonder,
asleep, I hope,
and me, awake,
so far away,
cursing the tooth-ache,