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a popular fallacy:
if my mother loves me
it must be because i am loveable.
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it happens all the time:
the moment your back is turned,
they gossip about the source and size
of your income.
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no need to speculate about mine.
as a writer --
and to compound the felony,
an armenian writer--
my income is negative:
i lose more than i make.
i survive on my savings;
and it is only on extremely rare occasions
that i make more than minimum wage.
Gandhi is my role model:
he didn't waste any money on envelopes.
he just turned used ones inside out.
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i am not a poet.
i leave verses to our vodanavorjis.
i write short lines
to make myself more readable.
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Somerset Maugham on Henry James:
"His characters have neither bowels
nor sexual organs."
in today's parlance:
they neither xxxx nor xxxx.
that's my kind of poetry.
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