my my my

( said the spider to the fly )

Won't you come into my Web !

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Where it safe !!

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WE

have declared the end of POETRY

The end of the POETIC ERA

//

Everything is to be SAFE now

( sweetly SAFE ! )

Sane

MEDIOCRE !!

//

As Phil Ochs put it

TO THE SAFETY OF STERILITY

THE THREAT HAS BEEN REFINED

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we have spoken

We have said

WE SHALL NOT SPEAK !

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Oh well

Back to ***** and ******* !

we shall leave the heart and brain

To the more deserving