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I have decided to withdraw my work from this site. The ridiculous clique of mediocrity that pervades is cynical and tawdry: poets who rate their own work under their own or other names, sickening sycophancy to poets and poetry of little merit and reviews by the vindictively illiterate. Everyone has a right to write and judge as they choose, but we also deserve a site free from fraud and charlatans.
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at the market, in the rain,
said he had an antidote,
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And I’m counting my sorrows as the lines they are drawn,
For no more can say they were West Riding born,
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