I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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