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May 4, 2018 KR Blog Blog Uncategorized Writing

Stuff People Say When You Tell Them You Write Poetry

 

1) Is this a hoax?

2) And they pay you for that?

3) And you tell people this?

4) Does your husband know?

5) Is that still a thing?

6) I read some Walt Whitman in high school.

7) I read some Emily Dickinson in high school . . . and she sucked.

8) Didn’t Sylvia Plath stick her head in the oven?

9) They used to jail women for that.

10) I have to go.

11) That’s cute.

12) Have you read any of the poet Jane Austen?

13) Recite something.

14) Do your kids make fun of you?

15) Can I quote you on that?