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BLABFLAB BLABBLOB POETS who can’t write clear, simple, unconvoluted prose carry their MUMBO-JUMBO-GUMBO HOJPOJ-GARBAJ-BARAJ TUNGDUNG into their poetry, especially their prose poetry. Examples of this plague of GRANDILOQUENT GOBBLEDEGOOK follow:
*** It is for this that they are appreciated.
For this they are appreciated.
***They explored spiritual states of an extreme kind.
They explored extreme spiritual states.
***She succeeded in winning our respect.
She won our respect.
***He managed to uncover it.
He uncovered it.
***It was the spear which he held.
He held the spear.
***He argued for it in a forceful way.
He argued for it forcefully.
***He did that in order to gain control of it.
He did that to gain control of it.
He did that to control it.
***It was then that he grasped it.
Then he grasped it.
***In an effort to avoid service, he…
To avoid service, he…
***He is engaged in an effort to avoid service.
He is trying to avoid service.
He tries to avoid service.
***He managed to produce…
He produced…
***He succeeded in winning our respect.
He won our respect.
***It was that book which held the answer.
That book held the answer.
***It was at that moment in time that he grasped it.
At that moment he grasped it.
Then he grasped it.
***It is for this that they are appreciated.
They are appreciated for this.
***Undercover political activity of the most blatant kind…
The most blatant undercover political activity…
***The way in which he argued…
How he argued…
***He did it for the purpose of gaining control of the system.
He did it to gain control of the system.
***It has a resemblance to this.
It resembles this.
***As a result of this, that happened.
That happened because of this.
This caused that.
***The tendency on the part of many people…
The tendency by many people…
***It seemed that western civilization and its cultural ideals were
spiritually bankrupt.
Western civilization and its cultural ideals seemed spirituall bankrupt.
***He takes it for granted that…
He grants that…
***To the extent that…
As far as…
***Writing on the basis of attitudes that were essentially negative…
Writing from negative attitudes…
***On the basis of…
Based on…
***The way in which they did it…
How they did it…
***They must establish an identity of their own.
They must establish their own identity.
***From sources such as these…
From these sources…
***It took on a life of its own.
It took on its own life.