The Worm Has Turned

I have signed up to read at tonight's writers group meeting. And now I feel sick about it, because how could I be so stupid? It's all stuff I wrote four and five years ago and I thought it was so profound and now it just feels stupid, stupid, stupid. But I have to read something, I said I would. I have to try and get used to critiques.

It was horrible, getting these poems out and looking through them to find three that didn't make me cringe. Ick. The people at this meeting are intelligent, experienced, some even have a book published already. This isn't a bunch of college kids I'm reading in front of.

In front of which I'm reading. I don't like having to turn a sentence around like that just because you're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition. It feels so clumsy.

Oh, god. I don't want to do this. But I know I have to make myself. I wish it could be a silent critique but I know it can't.

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