Impromptu Poems and the Talk of Visitors Departing
A humorous musing on poems that linger like guests who won’t leave. The narrator compares unwieldy verses to rural visitors and shares a compact anecdote about a landlady and a jug of honey to illustrate the stubborn end of a visit.
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