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Ian Mccleary

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

72 poems·Since May 2022

Poetry is important to my life because it gives me a way of saying things I never imagined were in me. My poems deal with all kinds of subjects, my attitude on today's culture, art, corporations, nature, etc. But these aren't the only things that I write about in my poetry. I don't have a favorite poet, but probably Michael McClure is the poet I have learned the most from, from his readings on YouTube.

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The Expectation to Create Something

July 13, 2022
The Grecian muses are dancing in a picture by my face as I dust around the frame with a featherduster I have been an unreceptive vessel for the most part. Something stands between inspiration and myself. Acting as a fence. Something that lives through me but does me no help by dwelling there It turns everything into a flattened perception of reality.
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