I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, l — Mary Karr, Lit
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I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

— Mary Karr, Lit
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