LYRICAL - THE PEABODY NEWS.com

EDITED BY DOUG HOLDER

I always tell my Creative Writing students at Endicott College to find original ways to write things...to avoid hackneyed language. Well one student poet Emily Pineau writes about how all writers are in a way literary thieves, word pickpockets, that simply organize their loot in different ways to fool their readership. To have your work considered for the LYRICAL send it to: Doug Holder? 25 School St. Somerville, Mass. 02143 dougholder@post.harvard.edu
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sharing what is stolen?

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When you think about it,?

or don?t think about it,?

or refuse to think at all,?

all lines?

all of the lines?

are stolen?

because all words?

have been used?

before us.?

We all share?

these words?

and all us?

writers do is?

simply organize?

them into phrases?

and sentences?

to make us feel these?

stolen feelings that?

have already been?

felt before from?

someone else?s?

life and words?

and meaning that?

poured from?

their pen?

their mouth ?

and?

their skin?

all over onto the?

next life in which?

we share yet it is still?

stolen because it is?

recycled and used?

and isn?t ours?

because it was theirs.?

So we speak these?

words that have?

been wrinkled and?

sweated in and we?

write our names in?

them staking our?

claim when we have?

none at all?

because they are stolen.?

And we didn?t pay?

for the copyright?

or make monthly?

payments to the?

dead so therefore?

we are not legally?

entitled to speak ?

or write anything?

at all?

in any order?

because we are?

all?

breathing?

stolen?

time

-----Emily Pineau

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