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(Or, 652 words about 1) In 1965, the world watched with bated breath as a new record was set in the cutthroat arena of minimalist poetry. The incumbent — whose reign had survived unchallenged for n…

The one-word poem worth $8,000 (Or, 651 words about 1) In 1965, the world watched with bated breath as a new record was set in the cutthroat arena of minimalist poetry. The incumbent — whose reign had survived unchallenged for nearly half a century — was Strickland Gillilan’s “Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes,” sometimes called “Fleas,” consisting of an impressively low count of three words: Adam Had ’em It has meter, it has rhyme, it has a neat little image to drop in your head. Sure looks like a poem to me, chief. Bystanders debated whether the title sho

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