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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:39:51 -0400
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Re: MT & modern poetry (!?)
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This is a wonderful, IMHO, short poem by SLC --

 First we laugh and laugh
 Then we cry and cry
 Then, feebler, laugh
 Then die.

T S Eliot might have been proud to have written it ! (Even as MT might
have enjoyed TSE's poems about cats....)

DDD

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