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poetry is hard everybody wants to read your most personal thoughts the only success you'll see is when you paint your heart across the page and pour your soul into pressing that simple "save" my voice seems worthless until I spill my secrets for the world to see but what if I want to keep secrets to myself and let the world see what it thinks it wants let me write soppy stories of summer days or mornings filled with cliched coffee cups loaded with the "real" problems every poet apparently has the real Problem is that everybody has a problem with not having problems why can't we be happy having perfect lives instead, I have to pretend I have problems when all I really have is the standard stress that comes with being young The closest thing I have to a real problem is the parabola on my worksheet and the other math problems beyond it I'm no different from any other aspiring author wanting recognition for lying and exaggerating and imagining problems into existence because no story exists without conflict and no peace exists with problems so we have a bit of a perfect problem paradox
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Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 2:37 PM UTC
the perfect problem
poetry is hard everybody wants to read your most personal thoughts the only success you'll see is when you paint your heart across the page and pour your soul into pressing that simple "save" my voice seems worthless until I spill my secrets for the world to see but what if I want to keep secrets to myself and let the world see what it thinks it wants let me write soppy stories of summer days or mornings filled with cliched coffee cups loaded with the "real" problems every poet apparently has the real Problem is that everybody has a problem with not having problems why can't we be happy having perfect lives instead, I have to pretend I have problems when all I really have is the standard stress that comes with being young The closest thing I have to a real problem is the parabola on my worksheet and the other math problems beyond it I'm no different from any other aspiring author wanting recognition for lying and exaggerating and imagining problems into existence because no story exists without conflict and no peace exists with problems so we have a bit of a perfect problem paradox
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Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 2:37 PM UTC
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