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xkcd #3209: Plums

Title text:

My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think people struggle with it because when you're a little kid poetry is taught as having to rhyme and have a particular format. Then you get older and run into shit like this.

e e cummings [yes that is capitalized and punctuated properly] was a master of using lines and space.