American Museum Novitates

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    “Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
    rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
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    I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
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    People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”
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