Pretending

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Pretending

I like pretending.
I'm pretty good at pretending
that I'm okay.
And that I give a shit
about half the people
I call friends.
And pretending it doesn't 
bother me
feeling like an outcast.
Like I said,
I'm good at pretending

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karix13 commented on Pretending

06-16-2010

I know what you mean. I can't be open with almost any of my friends. If I open up my heart to them, they shut me down. I've been hurt like that so many times, that i just won't let them know a single thing about me any more. I think this poem expresses that feeling very, very, well. I love it.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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