#23. And they ask, always ask, "Who are you?" And I say.

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I am the splintering continents of humanity. I am the old and the new. Tradition meets liberalism. I am the culture shock and the cynic in the corner and the loudest kid in the class. I am the teacher’s pet and the teacher’s headache. I am all-encompassing love and seething, sightless hate. I am the eyes and the ears and the fingertips in the dark. I am never and always alone. I am cold feet and sunburns. I am bulky paragraphs that never end, and I am

broken

phrases on a wide-ruled page. I am an artist and a plagarist. I am a pessimistic optimist, and when I hold still I move so fast no one sees me.

I think.

You never know, but I know everything. I am everything. Compassion. Pain, with. To suffer with. I am here to love and judge and call names and dry tears. I am here to act a thousand roles and shoot stars out of the sky. I am here to light up the night and darken the day.

I am a writer, now what else can I say?

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