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How would you start to write a poem? How would you put together a series of words for its first line__ow would you know which words to choose? When you read a poem, every word seemed so perfect that it had to have been predestined__ell, a good poem.
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How would you start to write a poem? How would you put together a series of words for its first line__ow would you know which words to choose? When you read a poem, every word seemed so perfect that it had to have been predestined__ell, a good poem.
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