News at Eleven: [" . . .] If you can say God is dead,

then harmony is dead, melody is dead, music is dead, therefore faith is dead. Therefore it's easy to do what you have to do in the name of necessity. The rules no longer apply. You have something that is a semi-poem, just as you have something that is a semi-democracy or a semi-foreign policy. And you don't count the dead in Iraq because it's not part of the melody." [--Derek Walcott]

from The Guardian: You promised me poems

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