A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
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It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. -
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