“Life is the art of drawing
Without an eraser.”
--John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner was
Not an artist but I still wish
To thank him for his apophthegm
Of living artlessly with no dodges
And no room
For any erasures whatsoever, even when
The artist in each of us finds himself—
As did John one fateful day— clearly
Out of his medium and face-to-face
With the one-and-only artfully awful
Great Eraser.
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