News at Eleven: But his works were as musical

and meaningful as more conventional poetry, too, and a lot more amusing. The minimal poems were eye openers, ear openers and mind openers, and no one else was doing anything much like them at the time, and no one has since.

Granted--as [Aram] Saroyan has--he was smoking a lot of grass at the time.

from The New York Times: Lighght Verse

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