Literature

july

I was a little aaaaaangel  
And then you clipped me 
And then you clipped me  

it was so paaaaaaiiiinful  
But damn I loved it
 But damn I loved it

here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at the writing process

i started with an image and feeling i wanted to explore and kept at it until it came out right

i don't have the full edit history so i'm not sure at which point I realized that there was this symmetrical 3x3 pattern and a "linear" progression of angel -> soil, innocence -> experience, "the fall", but flipped on its head, in that the so-called "fall" of fleshly enjoyment can actually be liberating, an elevation, transcendence even....

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even then there were changes i made before moving from notes to LaTeX:

"When sliding past the dress hem, cloth to skin."

was too clunky, didn't flow right and became

"when past the dress hem slid, from cloth to skin."

Out of context, the first line seems "correct" but in my context the line and wording must not aim to be "correct" for some supposed objective standard of english grammar

the line needs to be perfect for the grammar of the poem not the grammar of the language