Ode to My Dying Pen

By Erik Setzer

(based on a true story)

It wrote onpaper

Desks, and books,

I gave it many dirty looks.

I did not know,

As I chewed at its head,

That soon, very soon, this pen

would be dead.

I took it for granted,

Thought it'd alway be there.

I thought I'd still write with it

when out fell my hair.

I never really learned

something important to know,

That soon, very soon, this pen

had to go.

I discovered one day

While I was calmly reading-

The pen I just wrote with was internally bleeding!

I called the doc over

To give it a look.

He said that its illness was not

in his books.

The time had come

one fateful day-

I had to say something I

yearned not to say.

I must say "goodbye, pen,

you've taken a crash."

I gave it a burial into the

trash.

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