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Hello from poet and writer Mathew Snyder

In May 2022, I challenged myself to write a poem each week for a year. It worked. Here’s one of them that seems fitting here.

Let me rhyme for you
Let me speak in tongues
Decipher the way of my spirit
Let me show you things in disguise
Read with the intensity
You give to matters mundane
Let me go insane
You see? I’ve rhymed
Let me lift the hem of my cloak
I’ll show you my tattoo
My cliché reminder
That fate is not special
Let me write a terrible poem
That discomfits you
In a way that we understand
Each other’s pain
Let me be unequal
Let me show you contrast
So you’ll know good when you see it
Do good when you see it
Let me read this years from now
And be wrong about it all
All of it, deeper than my tattoo
Down to the bone

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Now, I’m writing weekly poems ongoing in this SubStack newsletter, brought to your inbox. My poems are soul-searching and murky, hopeful, wry and as true as I can make them. Poetry is connection and opens pathways through the muck.

I never considered myself a poet until recently. I’m a fiction writer — find my spy novel, The Hidden Vector, on Amazon and Audible!

Meanwhile, we Midwesterners say “thank you” to a fault, for damn near anything. We’re expert thankers. The trick is we really mean it. So I mean this when I say it.

THANK YOU for reading!

—Mathew