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Filing to DO :the making of A poem

Jacqueline Laughlin
4 min readFeb 19, 2024

I am going to switch up the order a bit to day to get this posting out a bit in the developmental stages of showing your raw data, how I as a poet might get to a poem. I am school now for learning how to organize and file and preserve things and it seems the first place to start is with my own mind.

I will start with the NOTES and References first, what pray tell prompted me to such … taking a moment to pause and generall write my way out of things.

My first TITLE for this post was what the kids call “click bait” something controversial, catchy, something that draws the reader, or the buyer in.. what do you as the influencer want them to do or be thinking about...

Would you have preferred or been more likely to click on this title? Think about it, click first on the Times article and then the local Detroit News piece. If you’re stilll with me so far and stil reading.. check out the poem that is as yet missing a title. However it was indeed my way of writing my way out, saying morning prayers and to be compassionate to myself and others and to really ponder what makes a person so angry that they would stab some one..

Bettr I suppose than having a gun and shooting someone randome or worst someone you know.. I fell down the rabbit hole and before I could even breathee I had to write … and hopefully write my way…

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