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No Plagiarism!aUkUReI2sBBG5jlVDGzqposted on PENANA Becoming a poet was kind of an accident8964 copyright protection730PENANA69LpiPQgmc 維尼
Like everything, I bumbled and fumbled8964 copyright protection730PENANAuXjVyz4H11 維尼
And somehow landed where I am now.8964 copyright protection730PENANAucfNFSuBhh 維尼
It started with stumbling over a meeting8964 copyright protection730PENANAtd3Dqqfctm 維尼
In the library with a couple people I knew8964 copyright protection730PENANAZ54VRwN3N4 維尼
--Poetry—8964 copyright protection730PENANArNsJNoKtkE 維尼
They said and I laughed8964 copyright protection730PENANAG9dVb1nE2k 維尼
When I thought poetry,8964 copyright protection730PENANAVGPYQL2Hsi 維尼
I thought sad, sad girls, and greasy haired boys8964 copyright protection730PENANA6SHkWcnEIi 維尼
Writing like they lost Lenore8964 copyright protection730PENANAoMbIAl4MZw 維尼
Despite being fifteen and allowance takers8964 copyright protection730PENANA5wEDYEWnrL 維尼
--Poetry—Really?8964 copyright protection730PENANA55keZMz4v4 維尼
Yet I had a little book of them leftover8964 copyright protection730PENANAwXeoTKZxOX 維尼
From an original attempt at Speech and Debate8964 copyright protection730PENANAhZgXZn6ebw 維尼
So I tossed it into the contest pile8964 copyright protection730PENANAb0XwqtXXlQ 維尼
While helping teachers compile the other8964 copyright protection730PENANAD06arfuSIM 維尼
Entries for some fair.8964 copyright protection730PENANALgUDJW0gJu 維尼
--Poetry—Really?—I won?8964 copyright protection730PENANAp4g2wBefUR 維尼
First place in a fair, ribbon and all?8964 copyright protection730PENANAyCRk5SnzrV 維尼
I don’t remember winning anything else before8964 copyright protection730PENANAAsvwrys4S9 維尼
Maybe there was something about this8964 copyright protection730PENANAoeOMO5CWM6 維尼
Something I could get people to look at8964 copyright protection730PENANAldBogSJUZO 維尼
What a selfish thought I know.8964 copyright protection730PENANAgVamsZbs9F 維尼
--Poetry—Really?—I won?—Yes8964 copyright protection730PENANABIDVlyfJ2h 維尼
I was the middle finger of five children8964 copyright protection730PENANAFZRRfE6ZEv 維尼
With a mother that couldn’t stand me8964 copyright protection730PENANAgs9DpF7CD7 維尼
With a father that crushed me with expectations8964 copyright protection730PENANA9j6iswA9ZU 維尼
That he didn’t know how to help me with8964 copyright protection730PENANAettpgBkpSH 維尼
I was unhappy, un-medicated, and angry8964 copyright protection730PENANAf9rwJOZ7vE 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help8964 copyright protection730PENANAyVWGIq5uz7 維尼
Suddenly, poetry was what kept me above water8964 copyright protection730PENANAfweHSUkaVr 維尼
Even when writing short stories failed8964 copyright protection730PENANA9w9y4jyH4m 維尼
This same concept I laughed at years before8964 copyright protection730PENANA1qH7T6wM5B 維尼
And dreaded when mentioned in poetry class,8964 copyright protection730PENANAmTWzSOZhkz 維尼
But they never talked about Ginsberg there8964 copyright protection730PENANATvOpxR6VqI 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help—Envy8964 copyright protection730PENANAFe7ixmncmA 維尼
I had trouble learning to read and write8964 copyright protection730PENANAbkALuMNfoM 維尼
And had to work harder at it than everyone else8964 copyright protection730PENANAkNxoEL7Pw5 維尼
But after a rough start I just got rolling8964 copyright protection730PENANAnifTV5KSK8 維尼
I was always reading and always writing8964 copyright protection730PENANAo8hwCC1awa 維尼
But I always envied the naturals.8964 copyright protection730PENANArkfXKlBWAO 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help—Doubt8964 copyright protection730PENANAX4nobiq9E2 維尼
I question it every day, even as I write8964 copyright protection730PENANAqc7PWaleJj 維尼
Is this really what I should be doing8964 copyright protection730PENANANDBbpKbNCy 維尼
There’s a world to see, places to go,8964 copyright protection730PENANAl1m7Cu27aZ 維尼
And yet I lock myself in my room and thoughts8964 copyright protection730PENANAZJJNLfZGTd 維尼
But without it, maybe my heart would stop8964 copyright protection730PENANAXOO7EhceKX 維尼
Poetry—Really?—I won?—Yes—Help—Envy—Doubt—Love8964 copyright protection730PENANAgWJ2yekDx9 維尼
I haven’t found love yet8964 copyright protection730PENANAXn1vDKVCkm 維尼
I still feel starved for it sometimes8964 copyright protection730PENANA0WXG5Rv5x7 維尼
So love poems are out of the question8964 copyright protection730PENANAbDfhqSJcym 維尼
For the time being I won’t write them8964 copyright protection730PENANAatcvH7zLKx 維尼
I can’t write love poems, but I love poems8964 copyright protection730PENANAHwknb1Zobf 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help—Envy—Doubt—Love—Finish.8964 copyright protection730PENANACfx9cPBh9r 維尼
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