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My Handwriting Used To Suck

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This is a poem I wrote in school during homeroom early last week. I did it all in one take (although I did stop to go to my first class) without erasing or starting over. I didn't go back and edit anything that was more than 4 lines before the line I was on at that moment. So basically, this is my handwriting in its purest and most uncorrected, unchanged, uncensored, and UN-ERASED form. The most I did was cross things out or write them small or on the next line.

That is exactly the reason why I am uploading this as an image scanned rather than text typed. The non-erasure corrections are PART of the poem. I hope you appreciate this piece of visual poetry.

I MIGHT also upload a written version of this. Or even two versions. One of it typed out and formatted to look like this and another typed out with only the corrections and no special formatting. At any rate, here is the thingy for those who can't read what it says in the picture: 

Why do I keep erasing?
Why do I keep rewriting?
Who cares if the letters aren’t perfectly sized?
Who cares if the numbers aren’t perfectly spaced?
Who cares if the characters arent perfectly formed?
Who cares if the words aren’t perfectly alighned?
Who cares if my handwriting sucks?
Who cares?
I care⁋
But why?
I didn't always care. But now I do.
Why?
Perhaps it was everyone saying,
“Your handwriting is so sloppy.”
Perhaps it was everyone saying asking,
“How can you even read that?”
Perhaps it was no one believing,
“This is my note handwriting and I CAN write neater!”
My Maybe that’s why I erase so much.
Maybe that’s why I now am bothered when a single pen</s>pencilstroke is outʈ</s> out of place.
Maybe that’s why I now must have words perfect.
Maybe thats why I go through 3 4</s> 5 erasers before I go through 1 pencil.
But it is pointless.
But it wastes time.
But when I could be copp</s>copying down a</s> the work for a math problem I am instead erasing and rewriting

just to write the problem itself perfectly

All those wasted sections turn into wasted minutes</s> addd</s> up
All those wasted seconds add up into wasted minutes.
All those wasted seconds add up into wasted minutes that ʚverdays add up to wasted hours.
Wasted time . . . just because everyone told me I had sloppy handwriting
My handwriting used to suck.
ßut it doesn’t suck anymore.

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