Poem: I Wrote My First Poem Over 30 Years Ago

I handwrote the poems first, then typed them up after – and I was inspired at first by the music I was listening to and the poetry I was reading. There are still a few poems

that survive from those early years and I’m locked in a pact with myself to never look at them. They’re in a loft. There’s a beer crate stuffed with folders – pages and pages and

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