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Why this is probably the only poem I'll ever write.

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Elizabeth Tai
May 28, 2023
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Originally, I placed the author’s notes at the end of the poem, and paywalled that section. However, by doing this I was also preventing non-paying subscribers from leaving comments. This was not what I wanted as I like conversations. So, from now on, author’s notes will be a separate issue altogether.


First, if you have not, read my poem, Patchwork Dad.

I never really understood poems.

Perhaps it was due to being traumatised bored to death by the scads of Sylvia Plath my A-Level English literature force-fed us. Perhaps this was due to my journalist’s heart — no waffling, tell us what you damn mean! — I have little patience deciphering the hidden meanings behind vague, mysterious, short sentences.

Yet, I wrote one when I was 20.

This was not intentional or planned. The origin of Patchwork Dad poem was hopelessly mundane.

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