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Epigram On Ending Every Verb With "---Ing'
The gerund or the present participle
are easily used, but they really cripple
the line of verse; which, then, sounds weakly passive,
instead of the much stronger, robut, active.
And several in a poem can cause its slowing;
and that sounds tedious, as you are knowing.
To make the point seem lazy, I am making
it: if you take it well, oh, just be taking.
Starward
[jlc]
