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Apr 2016
writing by moonlight is hard
so I enlisted my old friend
candlelight
hopefully I don't fall asleep
like this
this pencil is largely useless
but struggling is
half the fun

I DECIDED SLEEPING ON MY FUTON TONIGHT
WAS MY BEST IDEA
I SAW THE MOONLIGHT
STRETCHED ACROSS MY FLOOR
and couldn't resist a poetic opportunity

my words don't sound
pretty
nothing is
pretty
anymore--
are happy poems in
my vocabulary?

maybe I need to
stop giving a **** about future
and listen to now --
stop trying to fix myself
and just let myself be
for a while
The weird font formatting of this text is explainable: it's mainly italic because my handwriting is very slanty and usually half-cursive.  The all-caps section was literally where I switched to writing in all-caps in my notebook.  Then gave up.

Side note:  I started keeping a poetry notebook for on-the-go inspo!  That's where this is from; where I write little half-baked ideas, and if I want to continue drafting them, I will.  But I never had a place to write my dumb little poetic thoughts before, and now I do!
It's been real good so far (*^-^*)
R W
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R W
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     Anthony van Wyk and ---
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