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[LaGitana]

Okay folks - let me start off by saying "THANK YOU"! I have been down with a three day migraine and although I have peeked in now and then, I have not been in any condition to appreciate your excellent critique. Let me follow up by explaining two things: 1: you all are much more "edjumacated" than I am about all this writing and literary stuff... (stop blustering about about it, you are... I'm not quite sure I quite get all that you refer to in your critiques but I'll muck through them and take them to heart cause I never get serious critique almost ever...) 2: it has always been that when I write, the words hit me, I write them (sometimes within minutes, sometimes within not much more than that and I dont even remember writing them) I don't rewrite, I don't hardly ever discard them and until recently, like the past few years, i didnt change my style. it was the influence of a few people that helped me grow from the newbie scared scribller that I started out as in 2004 (or actually 20 some years ago) to the sometimes unsure insecure scribbler cum poet that i am now - a brilliant irish poet/visionary who mentored me (the only one to ever critique me honestly), an established sound engineer/writer/musician who taught me to play a word association game and write tandem haiku when the words had all but deserted me for a very long time (those two exercises changed my writing style drastically) and lastly a british poet who claimed he wasnt a poet but an observational writer taught me to just believe in myself and to write about what i see around me and how it affects what i feel rather than to just write about what i feel.... and he introduced me to Laurie Lee's writing.... unfortunately, i have lost two of the three this past year and am struggling...

SO, i will take your critique to heart and most likely use your suggestions unless they affect the integrity of my poetry as I felt that I wrote it... I will most likely explain why, but maybe not.

Once again, thank you.

LaGitana