Plagiarism:

[rowens]

I think cliche and blatant or subtle plagiarism are as useful techniques as allusions and quotations. Poets live and die with their poems, and that includes revisions, mistakes and down right crimes. Mutation in language and poetry is a theme as well as a form. A living form. If you are a poet, and you want to tattoo the body of your poem with someone else's stamp, that's perfectly fine with me. And if the poem stands on its own despite being exposed or it doesn't, if it lives or dies by the effect of its mutations, it's all right by me.