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Do Not All Things Well by August Clinsaller
August clinsaller, who was a close friend of his, and did the first selected poems an said, no, stop. You're all wrong about him. He wrote street poems. These are the poems we should be attending to. All do not all things well implies that some therefore do well for its own sake. The summer hath his joys and winter his delights though love and all his pleasures are but toys. This time doth well dispense with lovers. Long discourse, much speek, much speech. Hath some defence, though beauty no remorse. And in this poem, we have the auto junkeys next door neighbours. They seemed to live on beer and corn
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