My occasional

 Godson, Jeremy

reliably 

informed me

that poetry 

will be extinct

by the year 

2040.




Please give what you can

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1. You know, from the times of Socrates people have been saying children and young people are the worst they have ever been. In a way it is similar to poetry, and the way people think it no longer applies to todays society. Just a passing thought. Really made me smile this poem did 🙂

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   September 27, 2015 at 11:21 am

   • Nestor in The Iliad often moaned about the younger generation, these gripes have always been there…

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     September 27, 2015 at 1:41 pm