personally speaking (is there any other way?) I won't miss tde, if it goes.
All it ever did was make some people feel needlessly inadequate, and others feel overly adequate. Meter and form are supposed to be skeletons one hangs a poem on, not straightjackets or armor. to me TDE felt like the stomping ground of the metric SS, who would rather count feet than listen to the music that can arise from syncopation. Funk was better than disco, because in funk you can break the beat.
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Essentials:
In Brooklyn i was born;
lived in space before too long
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