and the joke is on us. If we were really so buddy-buddy with the English language, [Simon] Armitage seems to taunt, wouldn't we recognize it even with its back to us?After one labored reading, I held the poem, "Learning by Rote," up to a mirror and gleefully deciphered the story of young Armitage being ordered to write his name 10,000 times. It's a trick, sure, but a meaningful one.
from San Francisco Chronicle: Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid
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