Nov 2015
(a ten-word, tenured writ)
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they found her lying...
beneath the weight
of stolen lines!
~
*post script.
this ten word post from 2013 somehow seemed rather apropos today... with only one necessary change... it's gender.
having begun my life of a poet as a 9-year old plagiarist, i know the shame of discovery... thankfully for me it was just fourth-grade and the shame of discovery opened eventually to a world of poetic uncovering. i needed not copy anyone else for the seeds were already within!!! my hope today is that she too will have such a revelation!
my original post script from 2013...
copycats never win (10w)
though these words are true, i sometimes wonder if Solomon was right... is there ANYTHING new under the sun; are any of my words really my own? or did i read them somewhere and then they jumbled, tumbled out rearranged as "my own?"
~
they found her lying...
beneath the weight
of stolen lines!
~
*post script.
this ten word post from 2013 somehow seemed rather apropos today... with only one necessary change... it's gender.
having begun my life of a poet as a 9-year old plagiarist, i know the shame of discovery... thankfully for me it was just fourth-grade and the shame of discovery opened eventually to a world of poetic uncovering. i needed not copy anyone else for the seeds were already within!!! my hope today is that she too will have such a revelation!
my original post script from 2013...
copycats never win (10w)
though these words are true, i sometimes wonder if Solomon was right... is there ANYTHING new under the sun; are any of my words really my own? or did i read them somewhere and then they jumbled, tumbled out rearranged as "my own?"
