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It even has a name: The Second Immortal Dinner, in which Blundy for the first time read his corona, a poem composed as a sequence of sonnets, that had been lost long ago.

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That rude clatter is his equivalent of a sonnet.

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No one is writing social media sonnets about eating a yellow squash over the kitchen sink while wearing their ex’s oversized T-shirt, still scented with a perfume they stopped wearing last fall.

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He consumed everything from “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill to Shakespearean sonnets.

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At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.

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