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My Instrument

Too lazy to strum,
too poor to drum,
so eighteen years
of words have become
my instrument.

Though not with chords
my "songs" can record,
still, they've a beat,
and can slice like a sword:
my instrument.

Meter and rhyme,
whimsical chime,
structured or "free verse"
thought the latter is CRIME,
my instrument.

Love and contempt,
nothing's exempt,
write about order
or all things unkempt,
my instrument.