When someone asks me about a poem I might have written a day earlier, I usually make a surprised face. No, I don’t fake it, I make it. It is real. Because for each poem that leaves my cognitive train of thought to find temporary residence on a piece of paper, there are other twenty already jostling for a way out, through that narrow orifice which is the end of my pen. You wouldn’t expect me to remember all of them, would you?
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