Crack the Spine - Issue 16

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A Poet Should Not Use Outdated Lingo? By Abigail Morris

Shall I be verboten to proffer poetics to the less well lettered?

Be it with knotty nomenclature peppered or with antiquated parlance plagued,

why should I be limited to locutions of this modern age? Are you too torpid for Google?

Have you not wit To better educate your tongue, or is the cost of a moment too great? And,


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