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Lahore

Literary Editor

Writing / Publishing

“All the poets that you love listening to love lying to you. I’m not that egocentric to make you believe that I’m not one of them. I lie all the time, mostly up here. See, I’ve been doing this for a little while and I’m starting to understand things: poetry is not about telling you the truth. It’s about telling you the version of a story that gets the most reaction, the one that flows the best on the mic, the one that has all the lines that the audience is going to like. See, maybe the truth isn’t supposed to rhyme so well. Maybe it doesn’t have to rise to a crescendo. The truth never sounded like sound bites and name dropping. I promised myself I wouldn’t wr