Poetry There are two types of poetry writing. One is writing for yourself, the type of writing that you do when your dad hits you or your girlfriend breaks up with you or you're trying to come to grips with the fact that you think you're gay. It's the kind of writing that you do for you, you're the only one meant to see it, and it eventually gets tucked in a box in the …
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…each other that I couldn't even tell you what was the truth anymore. And I don't know if I'd want to. I just want you to feel like you have been sucked in by this work, that hands have come ripping out from the very fibers of the page itself and taken a stranglehold on you. That you've just lived it all. Don't try to figure it out. Just try to feel like you're there.