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If I've said it once, I've said it ten times

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I found a writing prompt generator on the interwebs and the prompt it spat out at me was, "write a poem of 10 lines, each line starting with I say ". Sometimes it's just as simple as that. (When I say "simple" I actually mean the exact opposite.) This took me far longer than it should have. I just couldn't seem to make the words fit together on the page. It's was like trying to solve a tangram with one of the shapes missing. (Don't know what a tangram is? Google it.) So, without further ado, here is my "I say" poem. I say things that make you laugh I say things I don’t mean I say that sometimes life is plain shitty I say that sometimes life is as shitty as you make it I say what I feel more often that what I think I say white lies are contagious and necessary I say I won’t be mad, but I really will I say you listen but you don’t hear me I say I love you every morning and every night I say you are my favorite person because I mean