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schoen on March 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?

It's a lot more metaphorical and more fanciful but there's "Evolution" by Langdon Smith: https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/int/evolution.html

  When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
  In the Paleozoic time,
  And side by side on the ebbing tide
  We sprawled through the ooze and slime,
  Or skittered with many a caudal flip
  Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
  My heart was rife with the joy of life,
  For I loved you even then. [...]

wishinghand on March 31, 2015 [–]

How do I format text like that on HN? Use <pre> tags?

schoen on April 1, 2015 | [–]

Two spaces in front of each line should work.

  One space is not enough,
  Yet two suffice.

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