If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams
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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. -
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