Quote by Russell Baker
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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Sorry if these lines are irregular in length and jolty in meter. – J.F. Bowman, 1868 [a little altered —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

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