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No Plagiarism!EFRz0HcvVpu7XYQx65Nbposted on PENANA Becoming a poet was kind of an accident8964 copyright protection700PENANAkfoVUJHKke 維尼
Like everything, I bumbled and fumbled8964 copyright protection700PENANA8mCTuHLYnF 維尼
And somehow landed where I am now.8964 copyright protection700PENANAxdVBBzk6t0 維尼
It started with stumbling over a meeting8964 copyright protection700PENANAodsG2cEoCq 維尼
In the library with a couple people I knew8964 copyright protection700PENANA9qmclK0Lmm 維尼
--Poetry—8964 copyright protection700PENANAY9NOjnXbsg 維尼
They said and I laughed8964 copyright protection700PENANAiVbEJ4PM9k 維尼
When I thought poetry,8964 copyright protection700PENANAaibJoFbq2b 維尼
I thought sad, sad girls, and greasy haired boys8964 copyright protection700PENANAQxzcN1gr3X 維尼
Writing like they lost Lenore8964 copyright protection700PENANAjZ27FnWi8e 維尼
Despite being fifteen and allowance takers8964 copyright protection700PENANAHx2h0YMekn 維尼
--Poetry—Really?8964 copyright protection700PENANAwsNqxtHHyn 維尼
Yet I had a little book of them leftover8964 copyright protection700PENANAW2Im5qK7mK 維尼
From an original attempt at Speech and Debate8964 copyright protection700PENANA5eDNd9Po2f 維尼
So I tossed it into the contest pile8964 copyright protection700PENANAUGrEAby3OF 維尼
While helping teachers compile the other8964 copyright protection700PENANAl3SzlZWQtV 維尼
Entries for some fair.8964 copyright protection700PENANALj7LXpan8H 維尼
--Poetry—Really?—I won?8964 copyright protection700PENANAhuD4VlsheR 維尼
First place in a fair, ribbon and all?8964 copyright protection700PENANAN9KO45GLCJ 維尼
I don’t remember winning anything else before8964 copyright protection700PENANArtsW3KRNOa 維尼
Maybe there was something about this8964 copyright protection700PENANAI6YqDlxhLU 維尼
Something I could get people to look at8964 copyright protection700PENANAOOI7HxljWp 維尼
What a selfish thought I know.8964 copyright protection700PENANAtMHKzrbwzm 維尼
--Poetry—Really?—I won?—Yes8964 copyright protection700PENANAn8KqoZv6B2 維尼
I was the middle finger of five children8964 copyright protection700PENANAA4MgFVX2cq 維尼
With a mother that couldn’t stand me8964 copyright protection700PENANA2Tta8MRj3c 維尼
With a father that crushed me with expectations8964 copyright protection700PENANAQGeHG1296Q 維尼
That he didn’t know how to help me with8964 copyright protection700PENANAAavc03fCju 維尼
I was unhappy, un-medicated, and angry8964 copyright protection700PENANAph9HKiCQna 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help8964 copyright protection700PENANABb1WviKqsU 維尼
Suddenly, poetry was what kept me above water8964 copyright protection700PENANAIQIt6Ukwhg 維尼
Even when writing short stories failed8964 copyright protection700PENANAMAufMWy43H 維尼
This same concept I laughed at years before8964 copyright protection700PENANAcDytBHrh5r 維尼
And dreaded when mentioned in poetry class,8964 copyright protection700PENANA0Y3xR7NuKl 維尼
But they never talked about Ginsberg there8964 copyright protection700PENANAAuoSIBoFmP 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help—Envy8964 copyright protection700PENANAJTTpUgGR8Z 維尼
I had trouble learning to read and write8964 copyright protection700PENANA1k6g5wKVz6 維尼
And had to work harder at it than everyone else8964 copyright protection700PENANAFdJEkNB2rH 維尼
But after a rough start I just got rolling8964 copyright protection700PENANA71j4Fv1LG5 維尼
I was always reading and always writing8964 copyright protection700PENANAWth62TtC9x 維尼
But I always envied the naturals.8964 copyright protection700PENANAgex5qS3ojh 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help—Doubt8964 copyright protection700PENANADYOjh0Ng8t 維尼
I question it every day, even as I write8964 copyright protection700PENANAiCOthfZmDX 維尼
Is this really what I should be doing8964 copyright protection700PENANAXjAWdK6WzS 維尼
There’s a world to see, places to go,8964 copyright protection700PENANAYdc7VK5tXf 維尼
And yet I lock myself in my room and thoughts8964 copyright protection700PENANAagXIvsNBkZ 維尼
But without it, maybe my heart would stop8964 copyright protection700PENANAwLeQYPg7Iy 維尼
Poetry—Really?—I won?—Yes—Help—Envy—Doubt—Love8964 copyright protection700PENANAhnsuSD6bQc 維尼
I haven’t found love yet8964 copyright protection700PENANA3ed9HlVLYd 維尼
I still feel starved for it sometimes8964 copyright protection700PENANAk0zqQZ8kbh 維尼
So love poems are out of the question8964 copyright protection700PENANAo4uCkUMbLX 維尼
For the time being I won’t write them8964 copyright protection700PENANA6Sw8bM22ca 維尼
I can’t write love poems, but I love poems8964 copyright protection700PENANAXT1zPjcsV4 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help—Envy—Doubt—Love—Finish.8964 copyright protection700PENANAIl8t4Ts9iu 維尼
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