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Devoid of Meaning and Dangerously Immoral

I have a deeply dark confession… I’m a poet, but I don’t read poetry. Furthermore unless they have videos on Youtube I probably haven’t heard of your favourite poets.

I mentioned in a previous post that I didn’t discover poetry on purpose; I just started doing whatever my musical idols were doing in terms of writing my feelings into rhymes. I didn’t really want to be a poet until really late on...

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