1/26/11 Finishing the poem
Even if it's going to be torn apart and re-written a half-dozen more times, even if it's ridiculous and makes no sense and is so terrible--or not. Even if the other people in class obviously have more experience and wisdom and insight and everything than you do, even if you can't yet turn a phrase....you finished the poem. You wrote it. It's done and on the page. You can use it and re-use it, you can do anything you like with it. Be satisfied. Be ecstatic. You have finished writing a poem.