josh-miller
My initial response to life is pretentiousness, faking things as this different persona that I see as an eloquent, romanticized me I call "POET." But I've been ignoring these pretentious impulses, because I find that "REAL" is so much more intriguing. / / Honestly, I've never really thought of myself as a poet. Only recently have I accepted that as part of who I am. But still when I think deep about it, it seems alien, as though I'm actually thinking of a different person. / / "Oh, no you have me confused with someone else sorry." / / I've thought of myself as a writer for about four and a half years now. But so long as I've thought that, it's always aroused thoughts of novels or short stories--prose. Only in the past year or so have I realized that I have so many more writers in me.