TEN REASONS FOR BUYING POETRY

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That is to say, ten good reasons.

  1. Most of it’s thin
  2. Your friends will think you have taste.
  3. It gives you something else to think about.
  4. Buying it’s easier than writing it.
  5. There’s room in the margins for lists and doodling.
  6. It doesn’t answer back.
  7. Look in your kitchen cupboard. I bet there’s no poetry in there (yet).
  8. It has no best-before or sell-by date.
  9. It makes the author happy.
  10. It makes the publisher even happier.

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6 thoughts on “TEN REASONS FOR BUYING POETRY”

  1. Buying chocolate-coated poetry is even better, cos it releases endorphins while you read it!

  2. Actually I forgot to mention reason 11 (which you’ve just subverted, Stephen): poetry isn’t fattening.

  3. Also, it’s satisfying to know that someone formed it with their own hands and decorated it, either before or after firing.
    ?
    Oh so sorry, I thought we were talking about buying pottery.

  4. Pottery isn’t fattening either, Reno. However, there is [i]some[/i] of it in my kitchen cupboard already… 🙂

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