BeansNet: How Do You Spel ? (1991)

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How do you spell a chickadee singing

How do you spell a guitar's song

What is the proper meter for cliché

How do you spell an impression clear and without

A history or a name
How do you spell a dancing that occurs only in dreams

How do you spell a touch that will never happen

How do you spell mountains that you will never see
How do you spell an unending stream of things that

Want to be spelled but have no language

Except not here, over there, not now, but then,
Not she, but her, put down the pen.

T. J. M. 91