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Revisionist Poetry

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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! 

Thank You, and Thanks

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So I want to (slightly-belatedly) thank everybody for reading, liking, commenting, sharing, etc. I haven’t been posting quite as frequently as I was hoping to when I started this site, mostly because I’m lazy, and in the battle between writing and watching How I Met Your Mother reruns, How I Met Your Mother wins like pretty much all of the time. But I have been writing more, and I will take small victories over no victories.

Please feel free to provide feedback if you read something that resonates (and share – I appreciate the shares), or even if you read something you don’t like, let me know why, and after spending a few hours despondent in a dark room with a bottle of Jameson and my Smiths albums, maybe I will emerge from it a better writer. Just kidding about the dark room. I take criticism much better than most dictators and about equally as well as the hitchhiker from There’s Something About Mary.

So in summary, thanks to Cobie Smulders, Jameson whiskey, the Farrelly brothers and Morrissey. And to everyone who has been reading, thanks especially.

And, I hear you: there should be fewer pop culture references than there are short paragraphs in a blog post. That’s a great rule to live by, and I’ve broken that rule, and next time I’ll do better. Thanks again.