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rhymey slangy singsong limey:your
'meaning torqued by artifice'
spangles on the page.like
similes.smiles.smelly emojis for the formal
set.i like larkin as much as the next white
male but:he's dead,his time has gone.mine,
too.

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when it became too painful to read poetry i
took to reading criticism:the best lines pressed
between blocks of pleasant prose & then
it(or i)became a bore to read the books
of criticism & i took to skimming reviews
of books of critiques of poetry.i have never
been so well read.