You can have a pretty good first line but not a strong enough thought to tag along more lines and sometimes in the middle words become bored and make… - Jim Harrison

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You can have a pretty good first line but not a strong enough thought to tag along more lines and sometimes in the middle words become bored and make war on one another. Notebooks are full of these fragments, shrapnel of our intention. Life is short on conclusions and that's why it's often a struggle to end a poem.