Origins
Olivia V.
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Whenever there is something in my life that I want to talk about, I write a poem. This collection is called "Origins" because I describe my essential self. "To be a brown girl" talks about realizing how I've been "othered" in my adopted country. "an ode to the weeds growing in the sidewalk" is about memories of a sunny day in the dunes near my middle school, where I was one of 19 students in my class. I remember it as a simpler time, stepping into adolescence before I started high school at a significantly larger school.
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Creativity is the ability to create things from your dreams.
