I believed that I could control any story I told. If someth… - Saeed Jones

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I believed that I could control any story I told. If something happened, I could write about it, own it, resolve it. Simple. You could afford to be interesting, if you could pin everything to the page afterward.

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Saeed Jones (born November 26, 1985) is an American poet.

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I slipped on the forcefully carefree posture of the other boys around me. The existential shrug of young men afraid to admit that they’ve been touched by art, and that they want to be touched in that way again.

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