Can I change what I've done,
Or stop what I do?--
Freeing myself without pain,
Filling my sea with rain,
Exist against the grain--
Either way, can I live again?
PUBLICATION: The Leader, March 27, 2000, SUNY College at Fredonia.
HISTORY: One evening at SUNY Fredonia, my girfriend Cindy and I were playing Poetry Tag, a game where you have to make up quick little poems about ordinary things, objects, or single words. Between having me write poems about a toilet and a chair, Cindy had me write one involving the word "coffee". With that, I wrote this poem, which incorporates the word by beginning each line with a letter in the word, and with each letter going sequentially as it would in the word "coffee".
Cindy later encouraged me to submit it to the campus paper's twice-a-year "extra" section for publication. It appeared in the paper later that semester, without errors.
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