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See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing will happen because we will be speaking in prose.

Jack Spicer

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Jack Spicer
Age: 40 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 30
Died: 1965
Died: August 17
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LA
California
John Lester Spicer
Two
Speaking
Nothing
Destroy
Trying
Weak
Poet
Presently
Shall
Attract
Happen
Poets
Speak
Prose
Happens
Bars

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