Douglas Cate Poet I do not know?

Videlicet: This Three-Notebooked Writing

Takes it a powerful, almighty congerie of the 
Most toilsome and rigorous lucubration, 
To write these, my poems...my poetries. 
Or, insofar as declaring, do I 
Attempt thus to prevaricate?
Is my literary legerdemain 
And poetic prestidigitation and prognostication such that it 
Requires little duty, less laboriousness, and a
Far lesser sort of toilsomeness to compose this, 
My poetry?
This be the forty-fourth poetic work by my hand enwritten
In this hebdomadal period-
This week, in short.
Yes, in something lesser than a hebdomadal span, even 
Did I complete, thus far, 
This three-notebooked writing.
Quotidian was this writing and diurnal, 
And hodiernally I can write little of the quondam poems: 
Written in such a fervorous, blazing, blurring manner, 
That I scarce am sure I canst rightly recall the composition of a solitary one.

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Douglas Cate January 22, 2018 at 7:30 PM Darlene, I appreciate and am very much pleased by your brace of comments, but I feel I must take the tiniest exception with them. For you see, insofar as your second and last comment is concerned, you are somewhat mistaken. I do hate to call you publicly on it, but in what you said, that I "wrote 3 note books of poetry," you aren't completely correct. Actually, I didn't FILL the triad of notebooks in question, & the poems I wrote in the week this one was written, they were written in 3 notebooks

Darlene De Beaulieu January 22, 2018 at 6:07 PM This poem says it all about poetry. I.. love.. it.

Darlene De Beaulieu January 22, 2018 at 5:58 PM You must be glad that you wrote 3 note books of poetry.