At the Mermaid Caffeteria
TRUTH is enough for prose:
Calmly it goes
To tell just what it knows.
For verse, skill will suffice-
Delicate, nice
Casting of verbal dice.
Poetry, men attain
By subtler pain
More flagrant in the brain-
An honesty unfeigned,
A heart unchained,
A madness well restrained.
poem by Christopher Morley
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