The nicest thing
Someone has said about my writing
Is that it is poetic
But that's awfully close
To the most offensive thing
They could have called it
Poetry
To this day, I don't get
The point of poetry
Isn't the purpose of writing
To make sense?
Haphazard line
breaks
Don't excuse incoherence
And iambic pentameter
Does not an argument make
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