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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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Source: https://xkcd.com/3209/

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