Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not … - Dean Young

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I just want to be remembered for treating everybody right. Just remember me like that. I treated everybody right, I don't care if they were rich or poor, I treated them the same. As long as people remember that, I'm happy.

Dean Young

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

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I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

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