Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, … - Dan Quisenberry

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The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.

Dan Quisenberry

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

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