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The Cook and the Cold: Collected Narrative Verse

Introduction

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Feb 01, 2025
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The Cook and the Cold: Introduction

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

The story is as old as man. Older, if you believe it came first, and us afterwards. And oldest of all story’s incarnate tongues is poetry. From days when the nomad paid his poet in cattle, to our current electric era and its global reach, poetry h…

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