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Ask me anything   K, 21, prospective poet, dresser upper, messer upper.

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Sharing Poetry: Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese" →

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You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and…

This is the poem that I had to “rewrite” for an assignment during my junior year of high school that started my love affair with poetry.

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