Someone just told me that he'd been sent to this site, MY SITE, by a published male poet who was showing off "his" work, and accused me of stealing his site and lying to people about it being my work. If anyone out there knows who is saying my work is theirs, please let me know. Good or bad, like it or hate it... Everything posted here is mine, and mine alone. I don't care if you absolutely hate my work.. But don't accuse me of stealing it. I'm sorry if I'm over-reacting. It's probably a psycho poet thing... But I don't like being called a thief. I'm not published, and I never said I was. I'm NOT a man. Being called a thief, being told I wasn't original enough to create my own work, is ten times worse than being hated. Hate me. But don't tell me I didn't write my own poetry. Please, if any of my work is close to identical to another poem, let me know, and I'll look into it. I don't read much poetry belonging to other people, because I don't want the possibility of writing something and discovering that except for a word here and there, it was someone else's work. The easiest way to avoid that, is to avoid read other people's work, for the most part.

I'm sorry for the rant, and thank you for reading.

Katie