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Caution: Instagram poetry ahead.
I spent the weekend at my parents’ house, looking through an old drawer full of high school assignments and drawings, creative writing, and poems I was once very proud of.
What follows next is my teenage venture into blackout poetry. I discovered the form through either Pinterest or Instagram – interchangeable in my memory of the time – and I had sought to recreate the teen-angst, edgy poetry I had seen.
Of course, I was too cool to name or date any of these. My guess is I created these when I was around 15 or 16 years old. My recent blackout poetry is linked at the bottom of the post!
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Who knew I’d make the perfect title page for a blog post?
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Just to pile onto the meme that teenage girls frequently deduce Nietzschean philosophy just by overthinking (I think I had heard of Nietzsche and I had read the iconic quote on nihilism, and I hope I knew they were somehow related).
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This one is actually almost good on the surface. But it means nothing.
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There she is.
These poems were formed from pages in Hermann Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund (1930). After butchering this celebrated masterpiece, I threw away the carcass of the book. So, I don’t know which edition it belongs to.
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