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48 A Conversation on Poetry, Life, and the Vulnerability of Pursuing Dreams with IN-Q

The School of Greatness

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When I Feel Pushback From an Audience

I was telling vulnerability as opposed to living it. And I didn't really have the ability to do that at that time. So if I feel pushback from an audience, my first instinct is just to kill the poem because I go into like, well, then watch, I'm fucking good. But don't you want a response? Well, interestingly enough, the more I can get into that mentality, whatever the response is, is okay. It makes me lean in farther to go deeper into the vulnerability of the piece. The hero shouldn't be invincible anymore. We're all just trying to figure this out. Nobody really knows why we're here. All we have is our own truth

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