"In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them."

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Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame, and I try to sketch out in writing how I am complicit in whatever dynamic it is I am illuminating. And sometimes it comes later, when I step back and challenge myself - am I being honest here?

— Bao Phi