being a poet

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A friend asked me how to be a writer.I wanted to say,lock yourself in a room,scream until you have a poem and no voice.Open your veins and bleed until you know that your bones
Yesterday I sat here for two hours and nineteen minutes trying to answer your question My mother had to call me down to dinner twice
You You think you know who I am Based on the words of my friends and my fam Me I know I know who I am, that's true More than the person who says my name more than I do Poetry
  the goddess Night having taken all the light is whispering: "do sleep!", and I am writing a poem
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