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homer makes a friend.

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Aug 14, 2021
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the thing is: homer’s poetry isn’t like — it’s not, like. good.

or, okay, that’s not fair, maybe; homer thinks his poetry has enormous potential, and in that sense, it is good. he thinks he can feel himself getting better and better, every time, with each poetry slam he recites at. something about the saying of the poems, out loud, to an audience, really…

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