Reach for what you want
Want more than you can get.
Reach, and learn what you can let go...
To get what you want,
Reach for more,
An adversary premise,
A good premise...
What do you want?
More than you can get.
but then how?
Take it in pieces,
Want it all.


The "poem" was culled from the novel A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. It was supposed to have been written and handed out by Charles Nesson, a Harvard Law Professor, to his students on the last day of a class in criminal law.