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I am reading about counterterrorism policing and Dre is reading about encrypting data. Our plan to become spies is totally getting off the groud. (Taken with instagram)
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.
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Answer:
A little break in between essays and work for my job, but it was nice!