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09-07-2005
Regina Pate
I help people because it makes me feel good to help people. I cannot not help people. I write because it makes me feel good to write. Again, I cannot not write. I am who I am and that is all that I am. I can tell my story, it is mine to tell, not yours, I know what is best for me, you have to know what is best for you. I don't want you to agree with me, I was just wondering if you would walk with me. Now do you see?
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08-15-2005
Jean George
This is very good Roger. The last verse is especially powerful, gathering the threads from the previous verses and knitting them into a blanket of thought that covers all the bases. You do not ramble or turn it into a rant that loses focus of the central thought. In saying that you honor honesty above the trappings of praise, you are making a statement that few can make with deeply felt commitment. I will send an email later with a question about a line and an opinion. Meanwhile good write, one of your best ones....Jean
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08-15-2005
Debra Rose
I will not advertise myself!
what I do will serve this purpose,
My medals? they will surely tarnish with time!
When I was "restarting my life", as I prefer to call it, I remember telling someone "When I die, I hope my name fades forgotten, but my impact eternally remains." I have it written down somewhere under two poems I wrote, one called "Growing up" the other "Growing down".
The last three lines are what really hit me. This is definitly being bookmarked as a favorite.
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08-15-2005
Mike Macdonald
This makes me think of how U2 only tries to contribute to humanity when there's a camera present. Or the pseudo-intellectual pricks at my school who talk down to everyone for just about any reason. Or how insipid the very concept of celebrity is.
A writer who asks for literary advice should get it. A writer who asks for praise should get a slap to the face. At least, that's the message I got from this piece. Very well done. It's a message all Americans can benefit from.
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