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Poets and their lack of humor.

Poets and their lack of humor.

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Thomas Jardine
Jul 25, 2023
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I have long noticed that poets have little humor in their mental makeup. Poets tend to take themselves very seriously, even though most poets have nothing to talk about except politics. I am not talking about light poetry, or those who write light poetry, or the Fentanyl of poetry, limericks.

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