The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib
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The Importance of Simplicity in Lyrics
"I know a lot of poets who sometimes feel like just saying the plain thing is surrendering to simplicity as though that's bad," he said. "But when one surrenders to so-called simplicity, you'd open up the window to a lot of other greater complexities." He added: "He writes as though he does not feel like directness in lyricism is a flaw"
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