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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: NastyGoon lifts a line from Eva Saulitis
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:36:29 +0000
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George J. Dance wrote:

> https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poetry.comments
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MPP) aka
> "HarryLime" wrote:
>
>> I realized from the content of NancyGene's posts that they were
>> intelligent, well-educated, and better written than anyone here.
>> Naturally, I asked them to start contributing to the "Sampler."  And I
>> was right in doing so.
>>
>> Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem:
>>
>> "Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers,
>> Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day."
>>
>> That's poetry of the highest quality.
>
> The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening line
> of Robert Creeleys (or Eva Saulitis ' poem) poem, "The Days Pile Up":
>
> "The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
>
> I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley or Eva Saulitis;
> otherwise that would be
> something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".

The Eva Saulitis poetry;

> A Room Stacked with Newspaper
>
> You tell me your memory is a room stacked with newspaper.
> Sometimes you enter, swipe dust off the stacks, turn the brown pages.
> Some you never looked at. You left us those and they are silent.
> [...]
>
> Eva Saulitis, 2023
>
> https://poems.com/poem/a-room-stacked-with-newspaper/