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Hi guys.
I recently wrote a poem. When I showed it to my friend, he told me to drop words like "pupil" (hole in your iris through which light enters)
He said, words like pupil, iris, cornea and retina are better off in biology textbooks than in poems and literature.
I get the point of not using technical scientific words in a romantic poem and at first I did feel odd using it when he pointed it out.
But now I'm going to have to change the entire structure of that stanza. Moreover I had used pupil within an alliteration. So I don't wanna give it up for that too. The more I think about it the more I feel that it is not that big a deal.

What do you guys think? Would you find the use of word "pupil" (the pupil of the eye) odd and unfit?
Help me out. Please.

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Ever wonder why every love song or poem, every romantic play or movie you've ever held dear was written by men? Ever wonder why men are 4 times more likely to commit suicide over lost or unrequited love? Ever wonder why every romantic gesture you can imagine is done by men, but not women? Women are selfish and know absolutely nothing about love."

Dying of cancer is the “best death” and we should “stop wasting billions trying to cure” it, a leading doctor has said.

Dr Richard Smith, a former editor of the British Medical Journal, said that cancer allowed people to say goodbye and prepare for death and was therefore preferable to sudden death, death from organ failure or “the long, slow death from dementia”.

Referring to the writings of surrealist Luis Buñuel, Dr Smith said that cancer was the closest thing to the filmmaker’s professed wish for “a slower death”.

“You can say goodbye, reflect on your life, leave last messages, perhaps visit special places for a last time, listen to favourite pieces of music, read loved poems, and prepare, according to your beliefs, to meet your maker or enjoy eternal oblivion,”

“This is, I recognize, a romantic view of dying, but it is achievable with love, morphine, and whisky. But stay away from overambitious oncologists, and let’s stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer, potentially leaving us to die a much more horrible death,”

In his blog, he argues that a quick, sudden death – despite being most people’s choice – can be hard on bereaved relatives and friends, particularly where there are unresolved issues in a relationship, while organ failure can leave people “far too much in hospital and in the hands of doctors,” he wrote.

A death following dementia, he writes “may be the most awful as you are slowly erased”.