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This is Fall, at 4:29 p.m., on 10/13/2020. Jamaica Plain, MA. (13/31)

“The question didn’t go away though. Why are you doing this? Wasn’t I too old for pranks? Wasn’t I embarrassing myself, creeping around grocery stores and libraries and public parks to tape poems? Wasn’t I unqualified to examine works by the greats, wasn’t I wasting my time writing for such a marginal readership with no expectation of income?

Yes. Yes, yes, and yes.

But also—

So what?”

—Maggie Lane / “How I Found Small Joys in My Life as a Poet Elf”