I like the metaphor here. The idea of mopping it up with paper before it slips the mind. Perhaps that is an attempt to write it all down. A difficult action, but if you're anything like me, there is at least an attempt -- sometimes it turns out well, sometimes it doesn't come out as I wanted. But at least there was an attempt.


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Needs punctuating. If I'd written it, I'd have gone for a comma after the first and second line, then a full stop after the third. I also would have split it in to two stanzas, being the first three lines as one followed by the next four.

The pottery

Where I keep my poetry

Has sprung a leak

I mop it up

With what paper I can find

Before it slips

From my mind


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