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The Poetry Deal (2014)
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Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.
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Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on.
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At least the Bay Bridge snapped
Maybe because the people
haven't. They just keep going:
dopey smiles, dopey music in
their ear buds. Somebody
had to say something.
& the dolphins, if they tried,
wouldn't be believed.
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Remember
that all you need to remember is what you love
Remember to Marry the World.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
August 6, 1934
Died:
October 25, 2020
(aged 86)
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