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At what stage does a poem become a short story? How many words can I squander or squash to fit a category?   I think I know how to tell the difference between prose and doggerel but the rhythms change as pictures in my mind morph into another kind and thumb their nose at boundaries and realign themselves to squeeze just one more nuance in the theme - a poet's heavenly hell. © 2017
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Sep 23, 2019
Sep 23, 2019 at 10:06 AM UTC
Manna
At what stage does a poem become a short story? How many words can I squander or squash to fit a category?   I think I know how to tell the difference between prose and doggerel but the rhythms change as pictures in my mind morph into another kind and thumb their nose at boundaries and realign themselves to squeeze just one more nuance in the theme - a poet's heavenly hell. © 2017
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Sep 23, 2019
Sep 23, 2019 at 10:06 AM UTC
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