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- The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that…
- Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
- I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there…
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