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Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum Quotes: I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.
         

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.


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This page presents the quote "I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.". Author of this quote is Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum. This quote is about poem, humor, disaster, writer, poetry, syntax, english-major, grammar, writing,.