9 June 2007 - entirely impenetrable

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Salutation to a Previous Generation

O Generation of the entirely snug
  and entirely impenetrable,
I have seen poets versifying in the dark,
I have seen them with uneven lines,
I have seen their volumes full of gibberish
  and heard unlikely theories.
And you are smarter than they were,
And I am smarter than you are;
And Hopkins lives in the anthologies
  and cannot even write criticism.

clue:

This is the first of three poems I’m running that I wrote as a teenager, at ages 16 and 17.

This one is a parody of an Ezra Pound poem.

give me a clue so sweet and true

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