Ann, your lunge to save us all from possible morpheme thought crime brought out the best or worst in me -- maybe they're identical. Great fun, anyway. I am going down to the corner to watch the illuminated pedestrian signs alternately flash red and green at right angles, instructing people to "Don't Hwock!" and "Hwock!". I will be thinking that a problem with big ideas about life (philosophy) in poetry lies in the readership, which is polarized and often dismissive of uncomfortable views, whether "progressive", firmly conservative (in the best sense), or just unusual. It wasn't always like that : Lucretius, Horace, Alexander Pope (yes, John W.), even LHU Tennyson, Dickinson, etc etc. Now we must fit into some asinine political cubbyhole or other, and promptly be dismissed.
Last edited by Allen Tice; 10-20-2015 at 01:23 PM.
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