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Date:         Mon, 22 Nov 1993 12:50:22 JST
Reply-To:     WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Sender:       WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
From:         Mike Barker <barker@AEGIS.OR.JP>
Subject:      SUB: A Foundered Pot

I found this in one of roger's old posts, and set it free, for thee...

*non-poet*
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A Foundered Pot (* seemingly boring things *)

if you write about your coffee cup,
a discarded Snickers wrapper,

etc.
you will automatically be

following Roger's 1st Rule of Poetry
-- AVOID CLICHE !!! --

because these objects are
so personal/insignificant

as to have never accumulated
the cliches

usually attached to things
like sunsets, lovers, heartbreak, and

Life Itself.
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