Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery, So Don'T Sue Me, Wallace Stevens
I know what a poem
looks like.
I know how to make
my prose look like verse.
A little tuck here,
an indent there,
et voila! It’s verse!
or worse ...
a pale imitation of seem.
(can I have some ice cream?)
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