Each of my pots is quite unusable,
Even for contemplating as an object
Of gross unuse…
Whether he meant pots or his own poems, the American writer John Hollander expressed a frustration that most anyone can relate to: “I pound at all my clay. I pound the air. / This senseless lump, slapped into something like / Something, sits bound around by my despair.” …
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