If These Guys Didn'T Use the Word, Why Should I
Shakespeare found nothing esthetic about peripatetic
Kazantzakis and Joyce found it maudlin, bathetic
Dickens and Dickinson thought it alarmingly phrenetic
I’d use the word in my poems, frankly it’s asyndetic*
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*denoting the omission of a conjunction between two parts
of a sentence.
Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2022
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