When I was in high school, I wrote poetry like a high schooler. One overwrought lyric was about seeing the author photo on the back of a book of poetry, and being disappointed. I don’t have a copy of this poem any longer, but I do know what the last line of that poem was: “Poets should never be old.”
Hahaha younger self!
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