Thanks to Rob Taylor for pointing out this story about a Burmese poet imprisoned for embedding a political message in a Valentine's poem--and finally released to write again.
The most trouble I've ever got into for an acrostic was having a CBC producer miffed at me. And how about that Burmese language? He said all that in an 8 line poem!
I want to hear the story about the CBC producer.
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