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Happy Thursday. I hope this email finds you either sleeping or otherwise at peace.

I am here to stir that shit up with some weird little first drafts/half-done poems.

The first is based on the GloPoWriMo prompt! Write a poem in which you take your title or some language/ideas from The Strangest Things in the World. Scroll on down (I actually recommend Crtl+F) to The Ferocious Centipede to find my inspiration. I forgot I wrote this until I opened my laptop to send this newsletter, but I’m sharing anyway solely for that killer title (courtesy Thomas R. Henry).

This next one’s a doozy, including where it came from, but I will try to explain myself. One of my favorite podcasts did an April Fools episode in which they had to guess which stories were actually from listeners and which one their producer wrote, two truths and a lie style. It got me thinking about attempting to write in someone else’s voice. It’s challenging to get out of your own head during and about poetry so I’d like to devote more time to this exercise one day, when no bedtime looms over me.

Just remember, if you’re thinking, I don’t know what that poem meant — you’re not alone.

Talk tomorrow <3

Nora