Yeah, I immediately wanted to test your poetry hypothesis. Does "Dixie"
count as poetry? Look away!
Actually my home state's anthem is lost cause poetry: "The despot's heel
is on thy shore..."
> I wrote about Brzk: "Obviously he was never going to win, but lost causes
> usually have the best poetry."
>
> Emphasis on "usually", and I'm glad I used that word.
>
> There were and are plenty of "lost causes" that deserved to lose, and
> their poetry was/is almost invariably rubbish.
>
>
>
count as poetry? Look away!
Actually my home state's anthem is lost cause poetry: "The despot's heel
is on thy shore..."
> I wrote about Brzk: "Obviously he was never going to win, but lost causes
> usually have the best poetry."
>
> Emphasis on "usually", and I'm glad I used that word.
>
> There were and are plenty of "lost causes" that deserved to lose, and
> their poetry was/is almost invariably rubbish.
>
>
>