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Name: triggerfinger
Joined: August 6, 2002

What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Here are some of my favorite poems:

a step away from them by frank o'hara
if i were a dog by richard shelton
gray by alice walker
the orange by wendy cope
a song in the front yard by gwendolyn brooks
lady lazarus by sylvia plath
never offer your heart to someone who eat hearts by alice walker
how to like it by stephen dobyns
things i didn't know i loved by nazim hikmet
katy by frank o'hara
in love and in war by warsan shire
what do women want? by kim addonizio
how is it so easy for you by rupi kaur
summer villanelle by wendy cope
patagonia by kate clanchy
the waking by theodore roethke
my papa's waltz by theodore roethke
danse russe by william carlos williams
eating poetry by mark strand
on stripping bark from myself by alice walker
i am running into a new year by lucille clifton
valentine by john fuller
in paris with you by james fenton
today by frank o'hara
the cinnamon peeler by michael ondaatje
one should see one's home from far off by vinod kumar shukla
tuesday night affair by sandra turner bond
kindness by naomi shihab nye
i measure every grief i meet by emily dickinson
wherever I hang by grace nichols
persimmons by li-young lee
the boys i mean are not refined by e.e. cummings
mad girl's love song by sylvia plath
i started early - took my dog - by emily dickinson
so much happiness by naomi shihab nye
every day you play by pablo neruda

Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme-
I never said they feed my heart,
But still they pass my time.