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Wow.

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Thanks, Patris

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I hope those are framed.

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amazing! & yr as precocious as Rimbaud writing so cool so young...!

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merci mon cool frère!

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What fun!

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😁

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This needs to be republished as a zine or a full collection.

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Thanks 🙏 I was thinking about scanning the collection into a PDF for paid subscribers.

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an old soul, from the beginning

The mind

impatient with the shallows

Just it

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Thank you, Berkana

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Thank you so much for sharing. I have been writing poetry for the past 35 years and I started when I was around 25 years old. When I was 16 years old I wanted to be like uncle Floyd and make my own variety show. I have so many television images. The opening segment of my high school senior year television show involved a tv that got smashed with a sledge hammer.

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Thanks, Chris. I appreciate your comments.

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Amazing sketch!

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Thank you!

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I loved reading these creative artifacts! It's fun to see how different we are as we grow older and how much of our personality is still the same as when we were callow youths

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My inner callow youth thanks you 😁

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Wow...i love it love it love it!!! I was also a 16 year old poet.

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Thank you!

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Fanatastic.. reminds me of a piece of street art that I once saw of a television eating a brain.

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Grazie, amico

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wonderful!

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Thank you

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I absolutely love the second one. The style and content work so beautifully together.

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Thanks 🙏

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Wow, this is really great! I was still trying to figure out how to play Rock you like a Hurricane when I was 16 years old.

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Time well spent!

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As a person from Maine, I was certain the cracked TV was a rendering of my beloved “Dirigo”!

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Had to look that up

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If you liked, restacked, or commented on this post -- and/or if you're a paid subscriber -- I'll be emailing you a PDF of the entire artifact -- twenty poems written by a rather odd sixteen year old. You'll see that I haven't changed much!

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