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Vertical Verse is rare indeed Because it's difficult to read And difficult to write because Of Isaac Newton's physics laws. Gravity is not a friend To words stretched on each other's end Because unless they're arrow-straight They topple and disintegrate. Attributes as bad as these Can cause an author's ink to freeze So, despite that I'm their mother I'm not fathering another. Edlock Hart P.S. It's only incentive Was being inventive, And to be the first, The best, and the versed

© Edlock Hart, in memoriam 2000