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s o m e t o k e n o r
for
a metalanguage maybe a farewell to
they can call writing Jim Elizabeth
Weil
like a title
come up with to
belong to the poem
is there on the page
Source of the text - The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, Volume 4, edited by Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009, p. 1418.
TJB: Metasimile: writing is like adding a title to a poem on a page. This poem gently asks us to confront the relationship of title and body.
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