Well, it saved memorizing and improvizing
And the peasants couldn’t get hold of it.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Adrian Mitchell, history, humorous poems, poems about poetry
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O generation of the thoroughly smug
and thoroughly uncomfortable,
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Ezra Pound, social commentary