There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

John Ashbery
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  1. The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

  2. I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.

  3. A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

  4. Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail

  5. Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

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