Re: Love Poem #10 //Rik

Dennis M. Hammes wrote:

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I tried this sort of thing in my chemistry days; they didn't work,
either.
This always irked me at the time; it seZ somewhere that poets are
spoZe to get the new words into the "common speech."
I had to settle for getting the new /ideas/ into the common
speech; its users don't speak IUPAC.

It's too descriptive. More images might help salvage it.

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