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| User: | _emilydickinson (6985646) You are now about to witness--the strength of dash knowledge--
--Str8 off the streets of Amherst, dedicated & by most poets hated-- |
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| Name: | Str8 Outta Amherst, A More Prolific Poet Than You | |
| Location: | Opheliablue's house, London, United Kingdom | |
| Birthdate: | 12-10 | |
| Bio: |   I was born in Amherst, Massachuetts on December 10, 1830. I lived a secluded life in the house I was born in - except for the short time when I attended Amherst Academy and Holyoke Female Seminary - until my death on May 15, 1886 due to Bright's disease. [I am not sure how I know that last part regarding my death.]  I was an energetic and outgoing woman while attending the Academy and Seminary. It was later, during my mid-twenties, that I began to grow reclusive. I spent nearly all of my time attending to household chores [yeah, right--how much of a fool do you think I am?] and to writing poetry [translation: I spent all my time writing poetry and watching soap-operas, although television didn't exist yet. I have super-powers.]  Many scholars have tried to understand and theorize about why I decided to seclude myself in my home and write about the most intimate experiences and feelings of life. One of these theories is that I could not write about the world without first backing away from it and contemplating it from a distance. [Personally, I think that is bullshit. The fact is that I just hate everyone and I prefer my own company.] I had a few friends and acquaintances. One of these aquaintances was Thomas Wentworth Higginson [*asshole alert*] whom I sent a few pieces of my poetry to. He rejected my poems, but he was eventually the first to publish my work after my death. [Sneaky little creep. This does reinforce the belief that some people - *cough* ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} opheliablue *cough* - have that to become a famous poet, you need to die first. However, people who believe this usually also believe that you not only need to die first, you need to commit suicide. I did not do this, so clearly this belief is nonsense. Although it may be that my perceived 'oddness' just because I was a recluse has gone some way to maintaining my lasting fame.]I only had six or seven of my poems published during my lifetime--and those were published without my consent. The number is argued over because one poem was published more than once. [God people are stupid.] It was after my death that my poems were discovered. [I don't understand that part of my bio--if it was after my death, then how did six or seven of my poems get published during my lifetime?] It is [under]estimated [by some fools] that I wrote over 1700 poems. [The number was, in reality, closer to 1,212,303. I realise that is a lot. Although I watched a lot of soap-operas, they weren't on all the time so I had to find something else to occupy me.]  | |
| Memories:: | 1 entry | |
| Interests: | 35: acid, being alone, being sexy, brazilian bikini waxes, cementing death, cemeteries, dashes, david lynch, days of our lives, death, eminem, flies buzzing, funerals, getting stoned, hanging around cementary gates, letting my hair down, melrose place, morney wilson, n.w.a., not being a recluse, opheliablue, orgies, rap music, sex (men/women/whatever), soap operas, sunset beach, the smiths, thongs, untitled poems, vibrators, watermelons, wearing black, wearing no underwear, women, writing poems | |
| Schools: | None listed | |
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