My heart rouses thinking to bring you news of something that concerns you and concerns many men. Look at what passes for the new. You will not find i… - William Carlos Williams

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My heart rouses
thinking to bring you news
of something
that concerns you
and concerns many men. Look at
what passes for the new.
You will not find it there but in
despised poems.
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.

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About William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963) was an American poet and physician.

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that were in
the icebox

and which
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saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
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