is it really wise?

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is it really wise?

tackling word games
before I write?
and yet I do, 
as if to stretch 
my brain awake

I make a mocha,
my sipping friend
and comfort
in the early hours

once at my desk
alert for words 
to slide onto the page,
not waiting in time,
entering instead 
the prior
that nests the new