Brodie Finegan Forbes

I'm pretending to be whatever it is.

This is the one thing where it's my connection with the divine.

It's perfect.

therapeutic it's medicinal it's also confronting it allows me to to dive into parts of of my inner world that i feel are necessary in order to organize myself there's there's a lot of layers to it but at this point i i think it has more control over me than i have over it i kind of just get out of its way i let it come to me and it just flows that that deeply for you

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I've been writing since I was 11 years old.

Like same time, like seriously, since I was 11 years old, hours every day.

So I'm now at the point where like it's second nature.

It is just part of me.

Yeah, yeah, I agree.

My poetry is... For me, it's an exploration of everything.

Life, myself, my emotions, critiques of society.

But it is raw.

It hurts.

It costs something for me to write.

It allows me to feel deeper than I've felt doing anything else, really.

Yes.

I think that poetry is my own bias, but I think that poetry needs to be authentic.

And authenticity is not pretty all the time.