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extemporary
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See: impulsive, spontaneous


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Possessed of a wild, mercurial energy, most of these poems feel less written than extemporarily performed: they make extensive use of quotation, allusion, stylistic borrowings; spoken-word effects abound (repetition, stutter, quick and simple rhymes and puns); and there is a grand, sometimes self-congratulatory show of improvisation: "I meant: Yikes
While those two liberation movements have developed strategies and tactics to confront the enemy on a long-term basis, Al Sadr in Iraq called on his followers to rise and confront the Americans extemporarily without an inkling of what the strategy and goal should be.
 
 
 
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