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mknod  ·  2663 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: Advice to a Poet

The best poets have been torn in half.

They gave so much of themselves that they can only speak in verse.

But on hard snowy days, stuck inside their parents basement while trying to rebuild their lives, the best poets always remember,

That the verse is what rebuilds them.