LOST IN THE VERSE BARRENS Entangled with commitment to academic careers by aiding and abetting publication of drivel affected as poetry, no work of genius can embarrass that smug assumption of power when the tenured elite arrange subservience to their jealous snub of a real poet's labor, then issue limited editions of condensed prosaisms in artsy covered booklets, testing if any famished souls would pay to unearth yet another dead zone for the void of mind to adore the grand cartel of mediocrity.

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