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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    All my time running like a river to the sea.
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    It's all about accreting. Building molecules with atoms. Tissue with molecules. Organs with tissue. Bodies with organs
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    If you do this for all the interesting note worthy parts pretty soon you'll notice connections. You can begin assembling an interpretive structure
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    "funk": there is a musical entry point for you. Write down all the connotations of funk music. What is the energy like. What culture does it originate in. What does it mean to be in a funk
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    Now do the same with "obsidian" and "wings". Aztecs and angels. Volcano black and feather white. Messengers of death
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    Write down everything the word "mothership" brings to mind. What is a mothership write it out explicitly. That's step one
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    "Peace vibes" is a crazy choice. Especially on its own w th colon and period.
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    What stands out so far?
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    Marckus Wicker, not what I was expecting lol
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    Ok now we are getting somewhere l m a o
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    This is what I do anyway. If people think they have better secrets by all means, here to learn.
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    Well, maybe it's harder to to connect with the poets, separated by a greater cultural canyon. Who are you reading?
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    Attention is a function of desire, if you aren't attending to it it's because you don't want to. Get in touch with yourself when your attention drifts. Notice the drifting. Ask why the drifting happened. Is something not clear have you stopped understanding? Ask yourself when the last time you...
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    Song lyrics are just poems, I mean obviously there are differences but if you can sit with one you can sit with the other. There are no secrets just attention and time
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    Suspended's Poetry Apprenticeship

    But can it be graded or is it a deeply personal experience. A grade is often a circus performance for an Educator. Is it like that?
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