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[aid] => mick
[title] => IT'S OVER
[time] => 2008-01-31 05:06:27
[hometext] => this is in my new book, SHOOT THE MOON, in case anyone's confused by the reference in the poem.
[bodytext] => it’s over. that’s it, it’s over. for years i always wrote my poems out of love… well, maybe not always out of love… sometimes despair or desperation or any combination of the three. but certainly always out of need. recently, though, my books have been selling a bit better… and that scares me. let me explain: this morning i was writing an e-mail to a publisher, and in it i said “now that the new book’s done and doing well, it’s time i get to work on the next.” GET TO WORK! on poems? that settles it… if i don’t do something soon it’ll all be over and the only thing i’ll write will be grocery lists and laundry lists and notes for delivery men. so, i’m asking you… do me a favor… please… if you’re in a bookstore right now and you’re reading this… put the book back on the shelf. don’t buy it. please. do it for me. do it for us. i’ll owe you one. [comments] => 2 [counter] => 307 [topic] => 43 [informant] => JohnYamrus [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 3 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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