Commentary Line 137 Lemniscate (+ cloutish query)

[Prsamsa at aol.com]

I repeat this, though I usually write "casually" and throw in a bunch of
ideas, so this in another post as well.

Nabokov;  Butterflies--hourglass and figure-eight shaped.
Why not throw in a little dictionary-poetry if you're stuck for a couple 
stanzas,
and poets most of all have been known to do that--
why--because, ever since Pound, because they can.  
Pound:  "it is a poem when I say it's a poem."

Perry.  
no sig.  
I'm on a roll.
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