a poet should know

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when to end a poem

Larry Eigner said
he wrote poems
so he could stop
anywhere

if you cannot make
a room
be satisfied with a table
or a chair
a vase
of flowers

this was said by Ted Huges
of his wife Sylivia Plath

many poets
pass up the best ending
that gives them
the best poem
and instead
add
the superfluous
 

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Yeah, you're right, and I have more trouble with titles which I see you solved by making it the first line. I liked it, I think there's a lot here that you're not saying.