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The Power of Poetry

How Not to Explain Yourself

Writing About Messy Relationships

Nov 16, 2025
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How Not to Explain Yourself

You deleted the wrong half of your poem.

The part you kept, where you finally understood everything, where it all made sense, that’s the part that should have gone.

The messy part you deleted, because it felt too raw, too incomplete, too much like giving up mid-sentence?

That was your masterpiece.

There’s a Nobel Prize winner who built an entire career on keeping only the parts you throw away.

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