“However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.”
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Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
I like poems that are little games.
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
