A Quote by Jonas Mekas
I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.
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I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.
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