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monkeys and bears and tears (oh my!)



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EllieMae says...



Every desire
It was never an addiction.
It was only a desire to remove
Emptiness.
It was only a desire to forget.
It was only a desire to heal,
Turned to an inability to move forward.
”Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards (so you might as well do Duolingo ).”


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I grew up
When i stopped wanting to be older.
And i died
Every time i remembered the girl i used to be.
”Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards (so you might as well do Duolingo ).”


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Then AilahEvelynMae
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The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch