Revisionist Poetry

One of my ideas before I forgot I had a website (Can someone send the URL? Can’t find it in my bookmarks…) was to post revisions of poems here as well, the idea being that I was going to be posting here so frequently (srsly…URL ne1?), that a lot of posts would need extensive revision. This would help me because I’m usually terrible at revising what I’ve written, and I end up with the same piece of writing in 13 different documents with no dates or records of what I’ve changed, so after reading a few lines I get frustrated, stop writing and watch How I Met Your Mother reruns. Also, I thought it could be fun from a reader’s perspective because everyone can decide which versions they like better and argue about it in the comment threads.

I have a pit in my stomach from using the word “fun” in that last sentence, but it’s too late to turn back now. I’ll catch it in the next revision.

So with that said, I’m going to post this (done!), post a lightly revised version of ‘our quiets,’ and then drop offline for a few weeks, never to be heard from again. Thanks for reading! 

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