Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Ken
>
> I like the new version without the like in the Surratt line, but would
> definitely keep the line about Nothing is like.
>
> Relevant? But of course? They met in your head....
Lots of stuff meet in my head, Douglas, which is why I need people
around to tell me when I'm totally incoherent.
> And isn't that the real pleasure when the liens surprise you, at least
> a bit...?
My favorite moments have been the discovery-shocks. The poem as
surprise package. Wanna know what the poem is about?--write it. It
sounds like what I've heard some poets say about that mythological poem
that says just what they want it to say: if they could write one of
those, they'd never have to write again.
Ken
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