# Thus the poet
**by Pedro Lino**

Thus thinks the poet
There might just be somewhere
else, elsewhere words are spread into

Thus the paper is convinced already,
it handles thoughts thrown up by the poet

There comes in the paper as it
got to gather together those running
words through the gate within the poet’s mind

Though thinks the poet
There might just be somewhere else,
elsewhere words are spread into

Thus the paper, ill-mannered, laughs