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Following its publication, reports stated that Literary Arts concentrator megan decker’s poem definitely could’ve just been a sentence.
“i wanted to use spacing/ to emphasize the/ heart/ break/ behind my words,” said decker, who likely could’ve made her point much clearer by writing her words in a sentence. “the ways we can use the/ emptiness,/ the silence,/ to convey our emotions to our audience.”
“i want my readers to/ feel/ what i am feeling,/to envision what i envision,” explained decker, who probably would’ve benefitted from a couple of punctuation marks here and there. “that’s why i choose to break up my words to add/ emphasis/ if this were just a/ sentence/ would you feel my words?”
“we need these/ pauses/ these/ breaks/ to take time to think about what we are/ saying,” continued decker, just ignoring grammar. “i hope my poetry is able to do that for people/ to break them out of/ their/ rigid molds.”
At press time, hyperrealistic RISD painters realized they probably could’ve just taken a photo.
