Theodorous says I shouldn't write poetry
until I've studied the last thousand years
of the canon, learnt it off by heart
and can quote it at random, and imitate it
before attempting my own stuff, and he says
it's imperative I start with hendecasyllables
a la Pliny Jr, but I retaliated, saying
I found the lot of it B-O-R-I-N-G
B. Evaristo, The Emperor's babe (2001), 83-84
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