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Poem # 9
A Poem's Justice
by Katie Davis-Steward
Source: The Beginning of the Tumbling (2004) p.35
I always write because I
revere it and am always
attached to it. But then I
found out I had to pump
out more poems quick to
meet a publishing requirement.
Therefore; I also had to write
on demand. All of a sudden,
my writing h ad gone way
beyond my office walls without
even literally leaving yet.
I began to write for an audience
I didn't know. Wondering what
they would think months down
the road. I stopped writing for
myself and definitely stopped
writing for the poem itself. Those
poems stopped at barely rough
drafts and would not form when
they realized they were ordered to.
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Poem # 10
City Limits
by Katie Davis-Steward
Source: The Beginning of the Tumbling (2004)
For the first time in my life
I did not know one person and
I was in a huge city filled with
people. that was my first night
in Pittsburgh. My roommate
hadn't arrived yet, classes didn't
start for two days, and initially I
can actually be very shy and wait
for someone to come talk to me first.
Then over the next five years, I began
to feel I knew the entire city. I wasn't
the typical college student who went
home every weekend, every holiday,
and every summer, as most of the girls
at my college did. I became a local. I
was there when it was just "Pittsburgh."
I worked regularly, had a long term
relationship, and could make any plans
with my best friends well in advance.
I had a blast back then.
Now I feel I am back to that first night
again, though, and it's lasting a pretty
long time - 6 months already. It's harder
to meet people when I live with my husband
instead of in a crazy dorm or over-crowded
apartment. I'm finishing my college career
online. And I'm still the same way around
people when I first meet them. I don't know
if San Diego will turn out to be another kind
of "Pittsburgh" or just another city I lived in.
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