If you tell a joke to a poet, he will laugh three times.
1. When you tell it.
2. When you explain it.
3. When he gets it.
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Ken Wolman
Sent: 27 August 2009 16:05
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Subject: Re: snap; sort of
andrew burke wrote:
> Yes, Doug, and I am unlikely to paraphrase it, even if I could. I must
> admit I like poems that can't be paraphrased: a poem that is a poem and
> couldn't be in prose is one of my 'highest' aims. (Not always one I reach,
I
> hasten to add.)
>
Paraphrase. I have committed enough paragraphs with line breaks to last
me a lifetime. I probably always will.
Which reminds me:
If you tell a joke to a peasant, he will laugh three times.
1. When you tell it.
2. When you explain it.
3. When he gets it.
KW
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