The Best (Anonymous) Poem in English, Ever.

Glitch Bottle Podcast by Glitch Bottle (Alexander Eth)

Jan 30, 202629:56Education

400 years ago, a brazenly braggadocious begging ‘bedlamite’ possibly penned a poem so incantatorily-poignant, so wonder-woundedly-written, so symmetrically and cognitively bruising, that it demands to be memorized and ch...

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