Mr President,
valued members of the Committee,
Your Excellencies.
Today
I have come to accept
the Nobel Prize for Literature
will forever elude me.
December 6, 2020
My Acceptance Speech
By hjs
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whypoetry 
December 6th, 2020 at 12:34 pm
wonderful, but remember: hope springs eternal!