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  82   POETS  IN  THE  BACKFIELD     Stay  a  while?   The  subliminal  cuts  are  coming  through   These  days  of  deadly  boredom,   And  poets  in  the  backfield   Writing   Something   Interesting.     Hardy,would  not  like  today,   Life's  become  an  angry  play;   And  our  deoxyribonucleic  acid   Carries  no  imagination,   That's  not  already  put  there   By  a  rival  TV  station.     I  can  hear  you  saying,   Yes,but,we  have  the  right  to  choose:   A  color,and  a  ball  of  string-­‐   Or  poets  in  the  backfield   Writing   Something   Inter  esting.     You  said:   "The  Golden  Bird  eats  Fish   In  South  America   And  most  of  the  peasants  let  him,   Because  of  Bolivar."   Yet,millions  starved  in  Gulag  camps,