I Met a Genius

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• Little tube of mighty power^[12]sourceall time · 57
• Charmer of an idle hour^[12]sourceall time · 57
• Object of my warm desire^[12]sourceall time · 57
• Lip of wax, and eye of fire^[12]sourceall time · 57
• And thy snowy taper waist^[12]sourceall time · 57
• With thy finger gently braced^[12]sourceall time · 57
• And thy pretty swelling crest^[12]sourceall time · 57
• With thy little stopper prest^[12]sourceall time · 57
• And the sweetest bliss of blisses^[12]sourceall time · 57
• Breathing from thy balmy kisses^[12]sourceall time · 57

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• brevity and compression^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• a final-line volta^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• first-person confessional voice^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• juxtaposition of child and adult perception^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• juxtaposition of the word genius with plain speech^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• understatement^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• litotes^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• plain-speech anti-poetic idiom^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• a lowercase i opening contrasted with a capital I ending^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• enjambment across ran down along / the coast^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius

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• irony of calling a six-year-old a genius^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• child perception versus adult perception^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• the clarity of unfiltered childlike sight^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• beauty versus ugliness^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• questioning the assumed beauty of nature^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• innocence^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• the anti-sublime^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• adult humility before a child's judgment^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• perception versus convention^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius
• the ordinary epiphany^[10]all time · Bukowski Genius

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• Create Memory Tool
• Ajaxdavis
• Tiny Hand
• Her
• Forgetfulness for Saddened Years
• Rainy Reality
• House on the Hill
• From Care to Joy
• The Girl
• Poem
• Free Verse Poem
• Lyric Anecdote
• Charles Bukowski
• You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
• Train
• Coast
• Ocean
• Today
• Utterance 1
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• Realization Event
• Written Work
• Pope
• Book Iv
• Creative Work
• Red Stone of Quarry
• Poetic Form
• Verse
• Cooktown Working Mens Progress Association Letter

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