The time was 8:48 pm.
One could not see the sun.
The season was summer.
The temperature was 77°F.
It was raining.
Issue
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Green House: A Brief History of “American Poetry”
Which decrypted is of the rhetoric monolithic institutions linked to capital and the imperial state, academy they became complicit in spite of its aversion to definite poetic statements, can nonetheless be character
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Sonnets to Edward Snowden
The disappearing colonies / are no longer buzzworthy.
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Please Wait (Or, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé)
How it floats with flagrant privilege / And feels it can ask any question
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Welcome to the Jungle
like just standing in line / at Whole Foods or Purgatory
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Beyoncé in Third Person
I type Beyoncé into my phone / five out of seven days a week. / That’s because I am a woman.
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Frames
With shutter clicks, his noted moments pinned
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People's Republic of China Sequence
There was an old man from Beijing: / You couldn’t tell that guy a thing.
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Please Don't Text Me Pictures of the Sunrise
That’s not an angel, it’s an ad.
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I Tore a Lion with My Hands
Here is a corridor too thin to be able to walk two abreast.
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Missions Trip
My white light / will bring forth the garden.
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from TITANIC
I want to say “trust me,” but let’s all have a drink first,
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(before you wake)
slow and soft / fumbling with / the light switch
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winter
she points out the new
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Texarkana
here the only monument was a border, / the only magic sounded like a pop song.
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The Spider
I stared into that space / wondering if a part of me / was empty, small, / of no importance to the city,
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Baroque
Scroll. Scroll. The dawn is breaking, war is starting,
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The Dialectic of Down
̑ = ̑
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Main Blanche
Flowers / Have a monopoly on flowers.
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Green Apple
¡Que idiota!
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Wittgenstein
I passed through the lip of the shell
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The Best Text Message Poem in the World
As you read this,
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Poem
then it spoke to Lianne. Everyone was astonished.
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The Importance of the Fire Ladder
The fire ladder is important.
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Melancholia
If she loved you, she’d escape!
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The Night I Fucked William Carlos Williams,
I was alarmed at how stark his mien was.
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Angle of Yawn
I feed the cat and clean out its litter box. This is the good part.
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the last three words i want to hear
and the children get bored so fast
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In The End, The Light
Books begin piling on my nightstand.
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Moving On
Of course there are circles
within circles, but that’s everywhere. -
Apollo
We have a problem:
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Self-Portrait (The Desperate Man)
Is that a fever’s rose / or rouge, do you suppose?
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Sure
(you could add other isn’ts to the list),
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I am my own best friend
I inscribed it I really did to no one
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O Is for Ombrifuge
In the car you tell me your reticulate dream
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Building Your Animal
you feed it something small, / during transportation or at work,
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Chappaquiddick
The rich were interesting and smart instead of just obscene,
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I Want to Raise You in My Starving Image
Did you want me to cackle.
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Teenager
Who will feast on the brainworms
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Habit
Go easy on me, nun
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The Sphinx
There’s a story about my great-grandmother
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First Theory of Origin: The American Cowboy
the high noon sun
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Forever and Sunsmell
for John Cage
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Melting Roads
the diamond-clean clinical glow, the whitened piss-yellow fluorescence
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White Sands
beyond fraying clotheslines and loose-leafed copse
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As Rivers, Below
as a half dream of leopards and doves, as falling asleep,
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The Stone
Not without reason did the stone break away—
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Staples
The spoon in the bowl / was the glass on the table,
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Ode
Summer is over, too quick
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Evening, By Them
One side was age; the other, looks.
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Emphasis on Yes
some days, we’ll sound a lot like mom.
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from We Are Nothing and So Can You
Is he one now? Is she one too?
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Crucial Babe No.1
He is such a crucial babe
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The Tiny Fly
What kind of tiny fly
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Anxiety in August
And nailed a black tongue / To the door of Eleven Wall Street.
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i think of others before you too often
i will adjust my sleeping position / to accommodate the space
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in which you anxiously anticipate events that will not occur
or it’s the moment he finds you in someone else
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dumb theory
the scenic route / the Pacific object / the industrial heroine
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We must rapidly begin
and for once it feels right to say / it is as if my entire life up until then / had been in service of everyone else’s dreams
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Palisade
Love will be compulsive or not at all
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Cheshire Chats
FIG. ( \ / \ / ) (MANTA RAY GUN)
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The Nuns
It’s just me in the kitchen. / Me and two jars of kombucha
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Pine tree
It’s a pine tree.
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October 26th
I think it’s been raining.
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Debord
the de- / Haussmannization of the mind on an October afternoon
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Sinclair
or walking as interactive cartography:
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Colors
Yep what a story.
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Cheap Legs
“make an end run around darkness,” / someone said.
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Movementalities
Conceptualism is most usefully understood as a form, specifically the form of new forms.
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(First Fifteen Minutes of) A Dialogue with Charles Bernstein
G: Can you state your name and, serial number for the audience here?
B: I … I don't really eat cereal that much.
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Political Poetry
Thus political poetry is, somewhat paradoxically, language that makes us aware of those qualities of life that are beyond language.
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Outclassed, Outsourced: American Poetry at the Present (Part 1)
But the critics, especially major critics as intelligent as they are tenured, should know better—know better even at the cost of purity. It's for that, if nothing else, that they exist.
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Motif
dead metallic -- crop / crop into the brightly zoned / animate debris.
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To Anchor the Swarm, Its
little cousins, little citizens of death / unnamed along these distributions
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Introduction to "Euangelia"
Critics frequently ask the polite question of a poem. They ask how it is written when the rest of us might more radically wonder why.
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Euangelia
The lone mule kicked, murd’rous.
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Introduction to Cecily Iddings
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Lyman Street
Merely clumsy, me, / I hit the brakes, I save / a skunk.
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My Magic Mountain
You / can have a treatment and / a treat too
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American Singer Canary
or for saying, / The cage is roomy but / the rent is too high.
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Things We Don't Like That We Don't Like
the image of a person / above all else, whether / handsome or grotesque
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Your House Is My House
it was easy to get into.
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Come Trust Me
like cross-dressing / or separating green glass / from clear,
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A Concentration Problem
who did he call / and who came?
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Nights
The cupboard kills the knife. / The knife smothers the cupboard.
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Teething Ring
to see All the World in a Box.
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What Do You See?
there I am / feeling crowded
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The Flatbed
I am a Trümmerfrau of language.>>
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Introduction to Chris Hosea
“Across the Boss’s Desk” is not a confession but a revelation
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Across the Boss's Desk
you are, like, a hurricane
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From Manning Unbound
against the gravity of down
and holding fast
in dream to where the wall
will let me hold fast
to the wall. -
The Dodos of Espionage
For innovations in shame.
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Come to the Table
A pink weld envelops
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Regional Holiday
As thirst climbs the esophagus, rings a bell in the head.
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[Untitled]
The red clay sang to them.
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Granulate Compassionate
I would put a flame to a face.
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Tamper-Proof
We are determined not to fall behind.
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[Untitled]
A man in uniform of fleets unknown / Herding the unwilling through
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Broad Strokes Educate
Muted trumpets:
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Please Check All That Apply
(It tugs at us / To be the ones finding out.)
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When Baker Left His Mark
Warrior-kings came through the window / Stained with parables.
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The Masonic Frag
The re-creation of yesterday park.
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Leather Nostril
Through concords of sexual death / And the avant garde.
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Pro Forma
To another crystal, doesn’t much care / For reform.
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[Untitled]
Now has become sooner.
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Better Off
park bench desk the less I disturb, more remain
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Now Spring Is Our Release
unloved like dry wall shards, glass and lint
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As Repeated Earlier
as fall is an effort of trees
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The Admitted Closure
cruel to my own tsar heart
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I Would If You Asked Me To
found like a feather on my pillow in the van
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Talking Can Be Not Easy
so we didn’t use words in that moment
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What We Treat It As
armadillo red ember echo picnic
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Forfeiting Gray
fingering the dream catchers
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Its Been Along Time
before the Safeway moment / hand on a cold fish, mango in my pants
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Perfection Is Not a Question
I wander along the ice cream stand
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Black Stygian Lotus
your friends get naked and read your poems
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Can We Return
the beginning of the song is therominy
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Glass Is a Sand Castle
in this city of challenged passion
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Bird Sketches
book apricot
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Introduction to Brenda Iijima
“Space is the place.”
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From Body Work
Tombs cradle awakening tombs
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Introduction to John Kinsella
Kinsella does not shy from the underside of poesis, from the negative operations that associate, talismanically, the figures of the past with a malicious present.
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From Paradise Lust Book II: Transferences
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Introduction to Nina Puro
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Social Security Office
I am yelling through a cracked phone.
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Outlived
The slurring of choices into a singularity: / the baggie lying on a glazed blue saucer with chipped edges.
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Fluke
Sometimes trees talk back.
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Speaker
I put on a smile like snow and snow and snow.
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Rivulets
a chipped mirror, a teacup, an arm to grab. / A patch of sky worn thin, gold.
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Thirsty and the Night Is Old
the sound of a boat loud with waves / when there's no water near.
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In Tlön, Uqbar
Sometimes lying is better.
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so much / a bit
gold lemon grafted in the orange roots and worms
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treatment
never carefully enough
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Bitters
The light in summer holds almost too long.
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Friday, 4:16PM, May 16, 2014 (typed this title as the last thing I did for this, it’s the current time—it’s 4:17PM now actually, sorry about this title/piece, feel like apologizing)
stream of consciousness
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Part Five: The Sublime Porte
meditations on death / interrupted by the / empty shampoo bottle
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The Underground Sonnets
Just know that somewhere in Atlanta poems are created / And somewhere deep in Georgia poems are destroyed.
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Going, Going, Back, Back
I'm good at math. I set the three above the six.
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Spare Generators
The junk fleet sank / Into a subway with the possibility of destination,
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Line Breaks
that everyone was / really everyone without exception—
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The Blessing and the
the useful path to take is / Gratitude for being rendered into / Content.
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In Disguise
whatever works / For you.
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Fibrillations
without focusing— / glass shells clear / up the opera
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Warm Arks
Now, an artist statement,
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First and Ten
Where are the Syrians of yesteryear?
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Imitation of Peace
The gloom that manufactures / White leaves and red ink littering the crooked axes.
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The Scope of Human Tragedy
that’s a solution destined to poison
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Homeowner
):
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Was It Hubris
“dirty whore”
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Female Anecdote
along the moving walkway to Terminal C.
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Saving It All for the Morning
Ass in the air / for you
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In The
half-seen and trill and ululation
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Death In Copenhagen
I accept Skills, measurement
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Chips
Pantone Solid Coated
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Warden
No ideas but in
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Twelfth Night
I think to be a poet is a very beautiful thing / Because a poet wants to be right but does not want to win