[New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[jforjames at aol.com]

I love the smell of burning paper in the morning. A traditional wastebasket is probably better for the environment.

So I immediately imagined the poem in the toaster.



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From: Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
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David, I'm happy to have this quote. When encountering one of those gauzy poems full of abstractions 
and conventionally poetic images, I have stock line..."What this poem needs is a toaster."
Finnegan


So I immediately imagined the poem in the toaster.

?

--Bob



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