In Verse One Can Take Any Damn

Poetry Is A Language Pared Down To Its Essentials.

And The Good Writer Chooses His Words For Their 'meaning', But That Meaning Is Not A A Set, Cut-off Thing Like The Move Of Knight Or Pawn On A Chess-board. It Comes Up With Roots, With Associations, With How And Where The Word Is Familiarly Used, Or Where It Has Been Used Brilliantly Or Memorably.

Sovereignty Inheres In The Right To Issue Money. And The American Sovereignty Belongs By Right To The People, And Their Representatives In Congress Have The Right To Issue Money And To Determine The Value Thereof. And 120 Million, 120 Million Suckers Have Lamentably Failed To Insist On The Observation Of This Quite Decided Law. ... Now The Point At Which Embezzlement Of The Nation's Funds On The Part Of Her Officers Becomes Treason Can Probably Be Decided Only By Jurists, And Not By Hand-picked Judges Who Support Illegality.

Consider The Way Of The Scientists Rather Than The Way Of An Advertising Agent For A New Soap.

'tis Not Need We Know Our Every Thought Or See The Work Shop Where Each Mask Is Wrought Wherefrom We View The World Of Box And Pit, Careless Of Wear, Just So The Mask Shall Fit And Serve Our Jape's Turn For A Night Or Two.