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Apple for World Poetry Day

To celebrate #WorldPoetryDay here’s Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay, reading ‘Apple’ (English language version)

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  1. SleepingDog says:
    23rd March 2025 at 1:37 pm

    Well, and worse than lies. Take the love poets, for example. What do they provide but evil hacks feeding pick-up artists and romance scammers?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_scam#Tricking_the_victim
    What motive could justify publishing love poetry? Much of which appears pretty dubious and problematic anyway. And something that robots are going to be much better at.

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