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Maybe they can't. Me, I have all the charisma of a wet nappy. Not but what I don't think old Dylan wouldn't be a contender in a bake-off. (Sort the negatives out of that, ye varlets.)

I am in a strange mood at the moment, and piskies are speaking to me through the medium of the social media. "Forget the indentation, Annie" they are whispering. "Write it as though t'were a piece of prose, with a scattering of witty punctuation, and you just might get away with it. Go on. You know you want to."

But are they right, I ask myself?
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Dylan Thomas was a personality. Not all poets would qualify. But you do wonder if it is intended to be about current personalities?
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I'm perfectly sure it is, Susan, but I am not in the mood to be manipulated by such easy preconceptions (grinning as I write but too proud to use a pre-packed emoticon).

I'm just a tad tired of knitting political blanket squares in red and blue and yellow so I did a purple one, just to see what would happen.
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piskies are speaking to me through the medium of the social media. "Forget the indentation, Annie" they are whispering. "Write it as though t'were a piece of prose, with a scattering of witty punctuation, and you just might get away with it. Go on. You know you want to."

But are they right, I ask myself?
Yes, I think they're right. Thomas wrote prose, too. Call it Milkwood pudding.
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I hear you, Piskie George...
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Dylan Thomas was a personality. Not all poets would qualify. But you do wonder if it is intended to be about current personalities?
Susan, it does say "living or dead". I don't think the latter could be considered altogether current.
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Thanks, Brian. I should read the fine print. Both fresh dishes and those past their expiration date. Freshly dead and long dead. "Personality" is still enigmatic, though. I don't think this one is for me.
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