sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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Good news. Now could you please add the ability for poetry to be posted in single spaced verse with double spaces between verses. It is impossible to do whether by direct means or cut and paste. No matter how I format, once I hit “publish” the text is converted to straight double space with no added space between verses. Very frustrating and negatively affects the rhythm of the work. Thank you.
Hey Suzanne - can you try using shift+Enter when you make a newline instead of just the Enter key? That should make single line breaks.
Also - coming soon: we'll have a mode in the editor for entering pre-formatted text, which means it'll preserve things like leading and trailing whitespace in poetry
