How Poetry Works, Revisited

"Poetry?
No, I don't generally read poetry.
I don't get it."

"Of course not," she said.
"Poetry isn't gotten;
it's absorbed.
You read it,
and read it,
and read it,
and then it's inside of you,

and you are someone else."

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