me, 2010:
Poetry sucks.
2011:
Okay poetry sucks but I like Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye.
2013:
Actually I really like poetry, I’m gonna do that.
2016:
Okay I still really like it but maybe I won’t do it so much.
2017:
Wow there are a lot of terrible poets out there.
2018:
Poetry sucks.
2019:
Okay poetry sucks but I like Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye.
—melony ppenosyne
Flommist Melony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s traveled to Virginia as a competing poet, co-written a play on mental illness that is presently being produced, and crafted a published essay checking the privilege and scope of art galleries. Copyright © 2019 Melony Ppenosyne. Image: The New Yorker, photographed.
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