Duchess, that's a good question without a simple answer. I think the best short answer is the Divine Miss Em's, "that which takes the top of my head off." But then one asks Why does it behead me? And then I say because it rings true. Well, my depositions in civil suits are truthful, so now we get to the self-serving part for this "song-like" poet. Because it rings. And by that I don't mean in the simple chiming way of John Skelton's or Tim Murphy's serial rhyming dimeters, but in the unforgettable way Auden was getting at when he described poetry as memorable speech. Milady, the shuttlecock is in your court, and I'd welcome an answer to your own impossible question.
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