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Poetry Workshop

Michael H. Brownstein

You must suffer to be beautiful, the fat woman said.

You must let the poet’s poem be the poet’s poem, the workshop leader interjected.

You must let God be in both pain and surf, the old man stated from across the table.

You need to understand how much pain there can be in earnestness, the fat woman rebutted.

A poet cannot be a poet until they have known hunger and abandonment, answered the boy at one
            end.
Nonetheless, the workshop leader chimed in, a poem belongs to the poet. It is not our job to take it
            from them.

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