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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

CHAPTER

The College Friend

I think every writer fears might have been a fuller life Because when you're writing You have to be writing And if you're writing about your experiences, then that's time in which you're not having other experiences Sorry. I mean he feels like a yeller college friend Who then you know waits too long till it be like hey, I like I dig you girl or whatever Like there's a kind of delay That's true They haven't Arguing about things loudly say Isn't necessarily the same as living a lifeThat's true. Both characters are a little fearful of failures to live so, you know, there's this sense of Retrospection and oh wait a minute. What was I doing

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