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What is a prose poem? Nobody knows... Here is an example:
That feels to me like a short-story by [a:Borges|426504|Joe Krush|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], but Borges would have continued for a few more pages. Edson pares each story down to the key point and then ends with ellipses. When the stories resonate with me, that shortness is an advantage. When they don't, the shortness is also an advantage...
“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”
Characters
After certain difficulties a family decides to become a cast of characters in a play. The setting to be the interior of a house much like their own. In fact, exactly like their own.
They'll go on living their regular lives, but now their lives won't be real. Father will play the father, and mother will play the mother. Dick and Jane, their real children, will play Dick and Jane, their stage children...
That feels to me like a short-story by [a:Borges|426504|Joe Krush|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], but Borges would have continued for a few more pages. Edson pares each story down to the key point and then ends with ellipses. When the stories resonate with me, that shortness is an advantage. When they don't, the shortness is also an advantage...
“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”
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