Poetry in a Troubled Time
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What Was the Hardest Part About Writing This Poem?
"I could never stay mad at him for long. He wasn't made for a world of check books and save s accounts, stockbrokers, investment bankers," he writes. "The hardest part was that you're trying to face a loss that is unendurable to you." And so every day that i was working on this poem, i was trying to endure something that feltUnbearable but must be borne.
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