Friday, January 3, 2003
Epitaph On The World Comments
Rating: ★3.6
Here lies the body of this world,
Whose soul alas to hell is hurled.
This golden youth long since was past,
Its silver manhood went as fast,
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7/18/2025 8:31:36 PM # 1.0.0
If only poetry was written like this nowadays
Such poetry is still written but seldom published. As the poet Marilyn Hacker observed, Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise- nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.