make something from it

If you’d like to hear a brief commentary and how the pacing of these words flows in my body, enjoy the audio included above.

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I will not make you a narrative

or condition you into chapters

with characters to figure out

coherent plot lines to gather

.

I will not make you a manuscript

or soften you into story

tame wild into tidy

cultivate anonymity

.

Maybe I’ll make you poems

shape you into sounds

honor all the both-ands

in language deep & round

.

Maybe I’ll make you mysteries

in lines of two or three

or maybe I’ll let you

be the one to shape me

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Can you guess which of these is the first draft? :)