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My 8 y/o self wrote a poetry collection (part I)
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My 8 y/o self wrote a poetry collection (part I)

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an 8-year-old version of me

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One of the first pieces I ever wrote was a short collection of poems called “Funk Backwards.”

I was eight years old, and while I can’t tell you why I chose the title, or what I was trying to communicate with sentences like math is funny in the mind if trapper keeper does not unwind, I can tell you that “Funk Backwards” was sa…

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