I am stupid pls educate me. Were they actually poems?

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back then, people were just really fucking stupid, and didn’t understand the difference between prose and poetry (does it rhyme???). but the works were called poems, and by convention, the descriptions have stuck w/ us ever since.

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back then, people were just really fucking stupid, and didn’t understand the difference between prose and poetry

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