"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."

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"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."

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"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."

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