this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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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.