/lit/ - Literature

>be me
>be in a poetry critique group
>eveyone else writes insipid Instagram bullshit
>force yourself to go anyway because maybe it's better than nothing
>get invited by these people to enter a local poetry slam
>you've never done spoken word before, but you enter for the lulz
>write all over your material in one sitting; do zero editing
>make it all just a bunch of braindead, over-emotional nonsense that repeats itself purely for the sake of repetition
>win the slam
>get offers to do paid gigs
>turn them down
>give the $63 you won to the first homeless guy you see
>go home and write about it as a greentext story on 4chan

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