Following up on Maryann's. Or leading up on it. Whatever.
I'm adding a title, and annotations. Feel free to join the party.
"Dear Half-Hour of My Life That I'll Never Get Back Again"
I am wormwood. I am gall.
I am supposed to use them all,
these "moves", clichés, etc.
But why. For what. A bet or a
Annotations:
Title: #3 (Abstract epistolary: using "Dear [abstraction or common object]" in title or first line), #18 (The very long title)
L1: (I am X, I am Y--from Stephen Burt's essay)
L2: #14 (Explicit references to poems, especially the poem in question)
L3: #28 (scare quotes), #5 (use of "etc.")
L4: #7 (ending a question with a period)
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