QUESTION: Was Priny The Poet Descended From Pliny The Elder

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A heart stained in anger

grows weak and grows bitter

You become your own prisoner

as you watch yourself sit there

Wrapped up in a trap

of your very own

chain of sorrow

2

I been brought down

to zero, pulled out

and put back there

I sat on a park bench, kissed

the girl with the black hair

And my head shouted down to my heart

"You better look out below!"

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JOHN PRINE

Chain of Sorrow 
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Comparing Priny's poem with
quotes from Pliny the Elder,
the answer to the question
posed in the title of this page
is
Certainly there is no
certainty to the question   

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Footnote
The recital of Mr. Prine's verse
follows an ineradicable advert.

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