"Uncharted Meter"
Larkin, Sartre, Dickinson, Barnett, Burroughs, Edson
Philip Larkin:
Jean-Paul Sartre:
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Emily Dickinson:
Time does go on— / I tell it gay to those who suffer now— / They shall survive— /
There is a sun— They dont believe it now—
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CM Burroughs:
Russell Edson:
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