From: Natalie@yabbs
To: Lestat!@yabbs
Subject: re: whatever
Date: Wed Aug  3 01:40:14 1994
i said it was derivative.  you don't need to read a lot of poetry to do 
that.  if just one poem by someone sticks in your head and you go to write 
a poem, that poem may end up being similar in ways to the one you read.  
which isn't necessarily a bad thing.  i've written poems like that, but i 
usually do it on purpose, to comment on the poem.  but keep with it, you 
aren't doing all that bad for someone just starting out...i was much worse 
 (well worse isn't a good word, but i'm too tired to think of a better 
one, i mean my work was on a much lower level than yours is, shit that 
still don't sound right.  i'm not insulting you here, i'm just super 
tired) than you when i started, i'm ashamed to admit i wrote some of the 
stuff i did.

natalie