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

and my 35-year-old self responds

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the 8-year-old teaches me a few lessons

Last week, my plan was to write a brief piece about “Funk Backwards,” a collection of six poems I recently rediscovered that I wrote when I was eight years old.

I should’…