Tenderness and Rot by Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan

Tenderness and Rot by Kay Ryan

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Hello, April. Hello, poetry month. Here’s a reminder I’ll never get tired of:

Tenderness and Rot

Kay Ryan

Tenderness and rot

share a border.

And rot is an

aggressive neighbor

Whose iridescence

keeps creeping over.

No lessons

can be drawn

from this however.

One is not

two countries.

One is not meat

corrupting.

It is important

to stay sweet

and loving.

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