Sarah Rees Brennan
A perpetrator of great cruelty against innocent words. Yes, that's right! The author of UNSPOKEN, the DEMON'S LEXICON trilogy and co-conspirator on Team Human
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So because it says to ask anything, I'm going to propose a request that you may ignore. What if Jamie wrote poetry? He's my favorite character and makes me laugh a whole bunch, and imagining his silly yet equally burdened brain expressing it in verse made me want to ask you what kind of poetry you think he would write? Whether or not you respond, I will be giggling (and curious) all the way to the nut house and back.
Asked by Anonymous
Well, the thing is, Jamie, God bless him, is deliberately characterised as feeling like he’s only good at one concrete thing—a thing he doesn’t want to be good at. He loves art, he loves beautiful made objects, he loves music, he doesn’t read often but when he does he really gets into it. So I was like, I bet he’s tried writing, and I bet he was lousy at it and despaired. So I bet he’d write lousy, lousy poetry.
Fortunately Jamie… I feel you… because I am also a lousy poet. Therefore!
A Love Poem for Mae: Brave like a lion/pink like a flamingo/that is my sister/and I love her so.
A Love Poem for His BFF: I can’t take you anywhere/that much is clear/you always kill something/then I’m like oh dear…
A Hate Poem for His Life: Everyone else makes plans and stays cool/I honestly do not know why/We’re hurtling towards disaster/WE’RE OBVIOUSLY ALL GOING TO DIE.
The Byron of our time?
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