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May 2017
Some Poets use big words
  to try and go
  where they’ve been banned

And wander esoteric
  into notions
  barred to them

They layer on the verbiage,
  hoping to become
  what they are not

And bastardize the language,
  running cold
  and never hot

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Kurt Philip Behm
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