Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to...

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Jack Spicer

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Aimlessly
It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No
One listens to poetry.

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- Jack Spicer

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to. Jack Spicer

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Jack Spicer