Achiever
— a poem by Marc Carver

i worked something out early
you had to reach the very bottom
before
you could ever
make it to the top
but the lower you got
the more you forgot about anything.

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Marc Carver has published six books of poetry and works as an editor for a site in New York. He has had about three hundred poems published around the world but most of all he hopes people enjoy his work and it inspires them to pick up the pen and turn the tv off.