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even if you don't make it.

not until the knuckles
become sore
or until the 
skin on your 
fingertips 
turns white
have you even begun to
understand what it is to write

Mishima committed hara-kiri
Fante went blind
and Fitzgerald
poured enough
rotgut down his
throat to kill
a whale

this is what it means to write

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