but missed out on what Frost was on about:
A gas stove kept me warm, provided light
to read and write; I lived on Food Stamp goods;
lonely but whole; timeless days came and went.
Returned one night to my surplus homestead
and saw that mice were living in my bread.
.
III. T.S. Eliot and His Mermaids
Years before I learned he abused his wife,
who suffered from "moral insanity,"
and was said to own a miserable life,
I memorized Tom's works of vanity.
Thorne's was looking for poets to recite
and I proposed to deliver Wasteland,
Quartets, Rhapsody on a Winter Night,
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