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Commentary on "Treacle"

This piece is the result of a poetry production method known as ‘Just In Time Verse’. Here the poet or poetess orders all the words that he/she is going to need just before the verse is to be written, thereby avoiding having to warehouse vast quantities of words that may never get used. We see how effective this method is, in that in this single poem Danny emptied the entire store of words that he was forced to warehouse in the year 1987 (CH).