I Still Use Pencil and Paper

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    I Still Use Pencil and Paper

    I still use pencil and paper
         (any paper—
              legal pads, printer paper, napkins)
         to write.

    The feel of the pencil, or pen, in my hand
         (get your mind
              out of the gutter);
         forming each rounded O, each sharpened I;
         spelling, misspelling every word;
         drawing each sentence, paragraph, story.

    Scratching, erasing, rewriting
         on college rule,
         between the lines,
         along the margins.

    Sometimes cursive, occasionally block,
         often illegible;
         to be typed and spell-checked and printed
         at a later date, but

    I still use pencil and paper to write.





    2003

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    MsKrystle commented on I Still Use Pencil and Paper

    09-16-2009

    Thats how all my poems start off: on a piece of paper. A napkin a receipt anything i can get my hands on to write down my thoughts so I wont forget. Now i carrying around a notebook. Love the poem
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    Skoght

    09/22/2009

    Thanks for the comment. Was wondering if anyone actually reads any of this.

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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