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    I should have picked the flower,
    Cleanly severed it from its stem,
    Cut it from its source of life,
    And, loving, given it to him.

    He was right- it would have withered,
    Drooped, died, then been forgot.
    But it was the gift that I did pick,
    Yet I severed it from the thought.

    So no one will enjoy the bloom-
    It will wither on its own.
    And I will try to select in future
    Better gifts where thoughts are grown.

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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