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 |  Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present . |
| The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page. |
| American Gothic Steady, Martha, don’t let them see the deep joy of toil to build the prosperity that enables the frivolity of their careless lives. They must imagine only the grim fact of honest labor on the faces of thee and me if they are ever to understand the emptiness and waste of their ways. Only if we maintain this steadfast, stolid bearing can we personify the simple truths that yet might rescue them from the meaningless swamp of modernity. Yes, Henry, though there are times when even I find it hard to believe that light can penetrate such unremitting darkness in the soul, such foolishness and idiocy. But you are right and, for the moment, I must endure and let them be as they will be. Line count: 8. I have separated each line with a space to show that there are indeed eight lines, even though some are longer than others. Rhymed aaaaaaaa For Express It In Eight, 07.03.23 Prompt: The painting American Gothic by Grant Wood. |
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