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i grow older and become to know the world, and yet, would it have been better to not know the world?

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missing jin hours (12/??) ↳ airplane pt.2 (japanese ver.) mv

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This is an example of an interview for my blog.

Your poetry is very political?

I would say now, and this is the link, every time I ever do one of those Facebook tests about ‘Which Literary Character Are You’, I always get Holden Caulfield. Every time. I got involved in politics when I was fifteen. The unity between now and then is that people are still talking rubbish. They think that no one will say they are. Every side has that. A lot of my poems now come from someone saying something ridiculous that has made me think “yes, thank you!” It’s not even so much about making the world a better place. It’s release, I suppose. When you are fifteen or sixteen and you discover injustice or stupidity, you think that you are the first to have discovered it. And that is not true. And you think that if you just explain that to a few people that it will suddenly change but that is not the way the world goes. You realise things are going to change or not change whether you want them to or not. Sometimes they’ll change like in 2008, when the crash happened. The sixteen year old me would’ve said “Great everything is coming tumbling down. But then, I realised there were quite severe consequences and that it’s not that simple. Plus, the last time that happened was in 1929 and the end result was Hitler and World War 2. And that was unpleasant.

I was actually at the launch of the Ghost in the Lobby last year, and regarding it, I have a single question. It’s honestly been on my mind since I came home that night. Why on earth did you ask Mick Wallace to come and launch the collection?

Why do you ask that question?