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And never, ever, apologise for anything you're about to read. The worst crime of the budding performance poet is to stand at the microphone and say: "Well, uh, anyway... uh... this poem I wanna read, it's not really very good... and uh... I'm, uh, still working on it, and don't really like it too much, and uh, well, anyway... I hope you do..." If that's the way you feel about a poem, DON'T read it. Don't make excuses. There is no excuse for bad poetry. It is no use telling me or anyone else what you meant to do, or say, or be! No one cares. Art either is or isn't. Good intentions mean nothing.
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