I'm probably using the wrong word, it's so steeped in pop culture, especially American TV, it must be something you've come across before. Its normally teens sent to therapy or rehab, or struggling with loss, and they write poetry to help with the healing process. Someones diary is found or their note book snatched and then other people find the poetry, and it gets ridiculed by their peers as really bad. I did study counseling, and expression through poetry was one of the tools they encouraged the use of to help people open up and process their feelings, I probably started seeing them as two different things then. Its hard to balance peoples expectations in terms of acceptable standards for poetry and writing for me. I have managed to move away from thinking like that with stories, but I really struggle with the poetry.
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