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What you wore to the house

Posted on 11 June 2019 by Thomas Kearney
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What you wore to the house
of the poem, but took off
before you dared enter–
I’d put it on now.

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On Writing Well

Posted on 18 November 2014 by Thomas Kearney
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Improve your Writing? Nothing to it!
Find an Adverb and eschew it!
And Adjectival abolition
Aids most any Composition!

Widely concurs the Writing Tribe:
It’s better far not to describe;
And rare’s the Pundit who disputes
That Things should not have Attributes.

 

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