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Sometimes when I'm
teaching a poetry workshop

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or even if I just
have a lit class

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I give my students
an assignment to take

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a comic form, a limerick,
a double dactyl, a clerihew

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or something like that, and
try to write a serious poem

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within that form.

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Because I think it creates
interesting tensions.

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So the next poem comes
out of that idea.

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And it hearkens back to
the anthrax days of 2001.

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"Snow, Nor Rain."

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"Higgledy Piggledy, name
not released as yet,

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handled the envelopes
20 odd years.

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Anthrax bacillus
spores paid on delivery

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killed him on Saturday.

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Send him your tears."

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