Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.

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Any Feel How I Can I Think Just Just Be Laptop Life Marking Off Once Paper Poetry Prose Somehow Start Started Switch Them Then Think Unless Vitality Words Would

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