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the lovesong of j alfred prufrock
first poem i loved and kept with me as a ripe 7th grader. read over and over to the point where it plays in my head, little things will remind me of it - foggy nights in the city or the ocean in winter or pondering my own mortality - and lines come flowing back
others stuck in my noggin include style by charles bukowski and the sunflower sutra by allen ginsberg. at this point i can probably recite a good number of billy collins works bc ive listened to the recorded album "the best cigarette" approximately 500 times
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@sofe
I also memorized the love song of j alfred prufrock!!!! even now I say it to myself sometimes like a prayer in the quiet moments. muttering retreats with oyster shells

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wmd any time anything goes wrong in my life ever you can catch me muttering to myself; should have been a pair of ragged claws
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