I believe 2006 was one of my most ambitious and pretentious years as a writer. I tried my hand at just about everything, from 25+ forms of poetry to the personal essay to fanciful languages (which I took notes for class in, and read afterwards) to Disney song parodies to short fiction trying to encapsulate my fangirl-laced sexually confused dreams to co-authored novels to “"songfic”“ (a popular form of fanfiction in 2006) to articles for a Redwall e-zine on how to build characters. none of it was good. none of it was the worst of the time, but none of it was good. adn I thought I was the shit. I saved documents with titles like "Exercises to learn Zaban” and “I Dreamed on November 15, 2005” and “Where Terrorists Lurk”. I took everything SO SERIOUSLY, I
for those who weren’t there, or hadn’t remembered, let me remind you: I used to take sportS VERY SERIUOSLY
one year, probably my most fanatic about ALL sports, coincided with me taking a poetry class at the community college. and there are. some gEMS:
I want the grasses to bow their verdant heads,
Prostrate themselves before they are freed of their roots,
Flung into piles of erupting green flame.I want the sea of concrete to still its waves,
Tranquility ruling empty lots,
The only movement that of spying birds.I want golden horses to graze the barren fields,
Want them to eat greedily of dry earth
And leave coded hoofprints in their wake.
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