I went with Chris to the last one. I brought my poem along too. But we spent so long driving around looking for a place to park that we were too late to sign up. I could have insisted on being added to the list, but… I got all shy…. Because everyone else’s poems are so… poetic. Mine is very rhyme-y and you can tell I was a kid when I wrote it. I’m afraid of looking immature and elementary and like I suck in front of everyone.
BUT! We did this activity where everyone wrote “I used to… but now I…” It was called Group Poetry, and they needed a volunteer to read it at the end. Chris volunteered me, and then the lady made him go with me. “It’ll be good for y’all.” she said. So I read “I used to…” and he read, “But now I…” It was very cool. And surprisingly funny too. Like one of them said “I used to do drugs, but now I still do drugs, I just used to too.” hahaha And one of them said “Now I am individual, but I used to conform.” It was funny.
Anyway, it’ll be a big step for me to be able to get up in front of all those people and read something that came from my own brain, something they will probably think is crummy, something so very close to my heart… but I’m going to do it, by God!
