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Coffee and Poetry
Reading a poem aloud with your friends,
along with your eggs and coffee, is like eating
toast made with good bread—your mouth
loving the rich, whole-grain words that
spill over the poem’s lip and into the air.
You may also drink language, the sounds
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Bonhoeffer’s warning
Barth’s refusal
