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  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • 1 min read

Well, I wasn't really much interested when I was young, but I'm getting into it nowadays. I like poems that rhyme more than ones that don't, but I often use poetry as a way of venting and writing things that don't require the metrical precision of a song lyric. Like Reginald's Sonnet. I felt like writing verse rather than some aria. I was initially keen to experiment with rap for Jerome's part, but ultimately decided against that because I felt like I wasn't a rapper...

 
 
 

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