Chris Hayden wrote:
>"it has to be loved the way a laundress loves her linens" does not call to
>mind the scullery maid, but the free worker taking joy in the simple
>pleasures of a job voluntarily entered into, well done. In this sense
>clothes are not clothes but an attitude toward life and the world--
So, what you're saying is that it's "like a lamb loving the
[sweater]"?
>This is poetry, not the drafting of legal briefs. We are free to be
>pretentious and silly and even wrong if we want, so be it, as long as we are
>rhythmic and emotional.
But Chris, why would we want to choose a "pretentious and silly"
poem to read at the top of Mt. Everest, the UN, etc., on World Poetry
Day (or whatever this event is called)?
Candice
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