I am trying this new thing with friends I've had for a while... Writing them love poems! Because... Because I don't want to be that poet (that poet I've always been) who only creates in the first flush of the NEW, or to prevent bleeding out at a death or loss.
And it's hard, I think (at least for me), to stop and look and see the things that we are so comfortable loving, the lives we take so for granted. But I am interested in the art of the middle. I am probably more interested in it now that I'm in my thirties! I LOVE BEING IN MY THIRTIES. But it's a different kind of art, isn't it, than the art of the twenties?
Unless one was a pretty spectacular and cunning 20-something. Which I wasn't, really.
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I am trying this new thing with friends I've had for a while... Writing them love poems! Because... Because I don't want to be that poet (that poet I've always been) who only creates in the first flush of the NEW, or to prevent bleeding out at a death or loss.
And it's hard, I think (at least for me), to stop and look and see the things that we are so comfortable loving, the lives we take so for granted. But I am interested in the art of the middle. I am probably more interested in it now that I'm in my thirties! I LOVE BEING IN MY THIRTIES. But it's a different kind of art, isn't it, than the art of the twenties?
Unless one was a pretty spectacular and cunning 20-something. Which I wasn't, really.
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