Dear Miss Monroe: Provided you will allow me to use small letters at the beginnings of my lines, I submit the following excellent American poem to you for publication in your paying magazine:
SPIRIT OF '76
Her father
built a bridge
over
the Chicago River
but she
built a bridge
over the moon.
This, as you will at once recognize, is an excellent poem and very American. I sincerely hope that no prehistoric prosodic rules will bar it from publication. Yours,
W.C.Williams
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