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Neopoet, A Workshop of Poets

Sounds like the family business.
Could family and workshop blend empirically?

Even if the craft of literary art
quite emphatically empirical may be
would that in significant respect
render poetry passionately sterile
and quite possibly filled
with a lack of inner beauty
like a vacant stare and plastic smile
or a hollow souless effigies
an entity that is done up
to the strictures of
form and style
structure and technique
an assembly line it be
and not a this family
spewing perfect poetry
why you can shiver if it please
at this startling thought - if it be
take down the word
"family" and put up the
ideal - that is "workshop"
and let us wokshop
to death this art and see
the resultant pedigree.

Just a thought; you may or may not agree.

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