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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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The Last Hurrah, the Good Bye of the Bistro

Most of the poems, inasmuch as there's an experience recounted, and te the experience is completely imagined. The poem "Petite maison" was inspired by a visit to a bistro that closed down after you had eaten at it one night. And i was able to use that little narrative as, again, a kind of allegory for how it feels to discover your transitoriness in your deepest, simplest pleasures of daily life.

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