Dear Miss Manners: An acquaintance of mine has taken to writing poetry. It’s awful: full of unnecessarily obscure words, commonplace observations presented as profundities, tedious self-ruminations, etc.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Miss Manners: How do I avoid my neighbor’s awful poetry?
Advice by Judith Martin
, Nicholas Martin
and Jacobina Martin
April 16, 2024 at 12:00 a.m. EDT