got an old poem I lost?



I've been working on my poetry. I still much grieve this poem I wrote
in about '98 and would have posted here, autumn late that I can't find
in the archives here, nor on paper, nor in any computer file of mine.
Do any of you have it? Its theme, if not its title is "A Whitman
Alphabet." I think it runs about two and a half pages, laments the
dumbing down as it warps the field of poetry and ends something like:
And if you write poetry/Use a Whitman Alphabet/Or shut your yap.

If any one has this and would send it to me, I'd be ever so
beholding. <R>
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