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Death of a Creative Mind

February 13, 2014
By Ailili BRONZE, Paris, Other
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&quot;Music is the devine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart&quot;-Pau Casals<br /> &quot;It is a rare thing to live. Most simply exist&quot;-Oscar Wilde

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Here is the age of reason
reticence is god.
NO


is the word of wisdom
and NO.

daring to draw outside
the lines is wrong









WRONG WRONG
YOU ARE WRONG
notice the auxiliary verb.
AM I?



YES GODDAM IT
I am your teacher


I laud the dadaist who raises a finger
with an imperceptible twitch of the neck
or a vein that pulsed



NO.

© Dat L., Worcester, MA

The author's comments:
Growing up in Europe is very different than in the States, my native land. While the former is not totally archaic, it strives to kill creativity. I was in class when I wrote this, frustrated with the stifling manner with which the class was being taught.
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