A while back, I made a resolution to rework some old poems from my grad school years. I was focusing on mostly unfinished work from that time, but now it seems that I was thinking too small. There's quite a bit of what I would have called "finished work" ten years ago that I think could use a rewrite. And when I say "a rewrite," I think what I actually mean is "an evisceration."
I recently came into contact from my ex-girlfriend from college, and we got to talking about my work. She made some remark about whether I wrote anything based on us. I told her yes, but I neglected to say that everything I wrote sucked.
I dug up a couple of those poems and came up with other poems on different topics that I had forgotten about. I kept thinking, I didn't use these in my final thesis, did I? Only to find out, Oh, God, I did!
Do I have the courage to post these, and try to work them into something better? We'll see.
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