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No Plagiarism!TgnwH8rfm5TnNAs1ErSaposted on PENANA Becoming a poet was kind of an accident8964 copyright protection731PENANAO3GKKSoTjy 維尼
Like everything, I bumbled and fumbled8964 copyright protection731PENANAai5yqi7S2r 維尼
And somehow landed where I am now.8964 copyright protection731PENANAOjIsNY58VF 維尼
It started with stumbling over a meeting8964 copyright protection731PENANA9QHFDynYX2 維尼
In the library with a couple people I knew8964 copyright protection731PENANAPIyPfRrEHS 維尼
--Poetry—8964 copyright protection731PENANAbU7n92rCwh 維尼
They said and I laughed8964 copyright protection731PENANAknl4gEkJ3v 維尼
When I thought poetry,8964 copyright protection731PENANAenFWxansnr 維尼
I thought sad, sad girls, and greasy haired boys8964 copyright protection731PENANASsj9YCZicn 維尼
Writing like they lost Lenore8964 copyright protection731PENANAjzOgv7fCnh 維尼
Despite being fifteen and allowance takers8964 copyright protection731PENANAsT6HPpRf0A 維尼
--Poetry—Really?8964 copyright protection731PENANAiCMSxFFoR8 維尼
Yet I had a little book of them leftover8964 copyright protection731PENANAMDORp9bdOd 維尼
From an original attempt at Speech and Debate8964 copyright protection731PENANAVpVKo5TvwK 維尼
So I tossed it into the contest pile8964 copyright protection731PENANAeURK5enA7p 維尼
While helping teachers compile the other8964 copyright protection731PENANAExEsjDw7zy 維尼
Entries for some fair.8964 copyright protection731PENANAyeMBTDjwLu 維尼
--Poetry—Really?—I won?8964 copyright protection731PENANAPoqnKkSNz0 維尼
First place in a fair, ribbon and all?8964 copyright protection731PENANA8exE9mmvBS 維尼
I don’t remember winning anything else before8964 copyright protection731PENANA288JJiaaku 維尼
Maybe there was something about this8964 copyright protection731PENANADALtIPzJ6w 維尼
Something I could get people to look at8964 copyright protection731PENANAKS1igxAS3j 維尼
What a selfish thought I know.8964 copyright protection731PENANAZijhH5hi9R 維尼
--Poetry—Really?—I won?—Yes8964 copyright protection731PENANAheqFNDHlaf 維尼
I was the middle finger of five children8964 copyright protection731PENANAWoqLKwzBnE 維尼
With a mother that couldn’t stand me8964 copyright protection731PENANAns8bSWWw84 維尼
With a father that crushed me with expectations8964 copyright protection731PENANA7FAGk2b3ec 維尼
That he didn’t know how to help me with8964 copyright protection731PENANAh3e0LhS89Q 維尼
I was unhappy, un-medicated, and angry8964 copyright protection731PENANArmOOI42k0Z 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help8964 copyright protection731PENANAskNDIMd1LE 維尼
Suddenly, poetry was what kept me above water8964 copyright protection731PENANAYRPowy2113 維尼
Even when writing short stories failed8964 copyright protection731PENANAFap4xIsBtG 維尼
This same concept I laughed at years before8964 copyright protection731PENANApbn6V2wBjZ 維尼
And dreaded when mentioned in poetry class,8964 copyright protection731PENANAhToRgOxFEg 維尼
But they never talked about Ginsberg there8964 copyright protection731PENANAmFg43wPVUi 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help—Envy8964 copyright protection731PENANAFAkHJioBEI 維尼
I had trouble learning to read and write8964 copyright protection731PENANAvoPFnFtZZd 維尼
And had to work harder at it than everyone else8964 copyright protection731PENANAvynmSlwHmu 維尼
But after a rough start I just got rolling8964 copyright protection731PENANAMr0ya4F5qI 維尼
I was always reading and always writing8964 copyright protection731PENANAFQRVr2aUPt 維尼
But I always envied the naturals.8964 copyright protection731PENANAPnCm3m3muT 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help—Doubt8964 copyright protection731PENANAe9lo3VcZb2 維尼
I question it every day, even as I write8964 copyright protection731PENANAEW8U70AK7H 維尼
Is this really what I should be doing8964 copyright protection731PENANAPTCVlUyHFR 維尼
There’s a world to see, places to go,8964 copyright protection731PENANAEh7lcg5yDY 維尼
And yet I lock myself in my room and thoughts8964 copyright protection731PENANAzpLVe24TBQ 維尼
But without it, maybe my heart would stop8964 copyright protection731PENANAG2EjCj7ink 維尼
Poetry—Really?—I won?—Yes—Help—Envy—Doubt—Love8964 copyright protection731PENANArmel2F3xzL 維尼
I haven’t found love yet8964 copyright protection731PENANAeTSfuS8xB4 維尼
I still feel starved for it sometimes8964 copyright protection731PENANACkUIPnj3Sv 維尼
So love poems are out of the question8964 copyright protection731PENANAEPTcJLYs5M 維尼
For the time being I won’t write them8964 copyright protection731PENANAHPcKEPYq8l 維尼
I can’t write love poems, but I love poems8964 copyright protection731PENANALpZ4zla1vY 維尼
Poetry—Really—I won?—Yes—Help—Envy—Doubt—Love—Finish.8964 copyright protection731PENANAEM8ggLjisd 維尼
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