What I mean to say by this is that sometimes poetic norms
come to us blessed as currencies in the most awkward ways possible.
Mayakovsky talked of this as poets simply putting carriages
together to make trains, but the first poet to invent the formula -
1 + 1 + 1 = 3 - was in fact a genius.

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