˚∆kameelah j. rasheed: Mensah Demary: "On practicing multiple artforms"

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“My writing has ceased, relatively speaking, since becoming an editor; the price of the ticket to enter into new atmospheres is the weakening of lungs, so when one returns to his “home planet”—for me, that is creative writing—it’s as if he never breathed the air,…

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planesandpassports said: Oh Mensah, I read your entire blog last night. It consumed me. Write more. You do it so well.
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