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Jun 2014
don't you hate it? -
when you write a poem
and you adopt this persona
you use "I"
(yeah, the first person)
and your reader is so ****** literal-minded
and takes the "I" to be "you"
and comforts you, or winks at you
offers heavy commiseration
or provides motherly or
fatherly advice
or grandpa's advice
(as the case might be)...
and you want to scream:
Hey, it's not me!

it's like the novelist
who's asked by their readers:
Is this novel about your life?

*Hey, it's not me! It's not me!
...thinking aloud, for all of us...meant to be helpful - not directed at anybody, and not referring to any specific instance...same applies to my nextΒ Β poem...
Raj Arumugam
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Raj Arumugam  Australia
(Australia)   
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