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What it means when they call you an NPC.

“NEWS

Enter to me in the silence of the evening.
Nod to me in the pause of the gloom.

Whoever you are, supporting me now in person,
Above the cold pleats of the current …

Fall to me in the pause of the year.
Desire is not all: It is not meat nor milk.

Love is not all: It is not food nor body.
This is my news to the race.”

—ERATO (1971)

Request No. 1.

Despotic power of the judges of all these TV competitions. We grow to lose the natural indignation toward such power a person should feel.

"If the poems are seen to have the power to corrupt minds, and to potentially engage a wide enough readership to make this a concern to the authorities, they must operate more or less in the same way as poems written in sincerity."