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An old dissembler who lived out his lie
Lies here as if he did not fear to die.

— J. V. Cunningham

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Poetry is what looks like poetry, what sounds like poetry. It is metrical composition.

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained
Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

Some Salt: Poems and Epigrams (1967)

What is needed is a noticeable unnoticeable style,... a directness of speech that seems to one judging easily imitable, to one trying it nothing less so.

Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain
And time grows fertile with extended pain

With an a natural affinity for the epigram genre, I am, so to speak, a short breathed man and have an almost unthoughtout preference for brief definitive statements.

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