<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581313" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Unmitigated verse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't ever read these poems<br>They are not literary fait accomplis</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not board certified to write poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My relatives are inbred<br>Some of them were even from Arkansas</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not a wizard of words<br>Hiding behind the curtain of degree</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is only your own time you waste here</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't ask me to mail a check for lost hours<br>Any mental illness that ensues<br>After being exposed here</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or if you break out in a mixed pox, of metaphors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Worse, if you catch this virus<br>And begin to write unmitigated verse<br>Tangled in aphorism and drowned in simile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And nobody wants to read it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Realize then, that you are committing poetry-<br>Which is an indefinable offense</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under the statutes of pablum.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patti+Masterman">Patti Masterman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581313" data-title="Unmitigated verse de Patti Masterman" data-description="Don't ever read these poems They are not literary fait accomplis I am not board certified to write poetry My relatives are inbred Some of them were even from Arkansas I am not a wizard of words Hiding behind the curtain of degree It is only yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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