How lucky I was born
to tell you the way it all turned out.
By Meghan O'Rourke from the poem "Elegy" in Halflife
I am a poet; this does not make me any stronger than the anyone else at reading poetry. In fact, I write these posts to practice my skills at analyzing poetry more so than anything else.
There is nevertheless a freedom in realizing that these words tell a story of myself, of my vision of the world.