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Michael Redhill

Canadian Poet

Born: Jun 12, 1966

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The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again. Michael Redhill

Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a child, I thought Batman was the whole package. Smart, calculating, pragmatic. Depressed, but in a way women found hot. Tragic at his core and struggling with his demons while trying to save the world. Michael Redhill

Women People World Smart Thought Save The World Else Batman Way Struggling Hot Calculating Like Pragmatic Demons Been His Lot Tragic Wondered Child Trying Often After While Package Depressed Might Younger Whole Even Found Core Save

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling. Michael Redhill

Time Long Long Time Pen Would See Magazine Some Poems Thrilling Had Disappearance Idea Feel Name Along Like Around Been Brain Pseudonym Literary Little Fun Even Flitting Published

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea. Michael Redhill

Mistake First Nothing Parenthood More Idea Conception Than Moment

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die. Michael Redhill

You Yourself Own Other Birth Fuse Seeds Having Leads Obsolescence Replace Child Die Sowing Your Appear Thing

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