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There was a year where I started writing poetry to perform at slams with my friends, and I’d often write at whatever computer I was currently studying at on campus. So, my digital notepad for poem ideas (or whatever things you usually jot down) was my Gmail drafts folder.

Now I have an iPhone with iCloud, so I haven’t used Gmail drafts in that way for a long time. Once a poem was done, I would move it to a Microsoft word document to print for a poetry slam, and the draft was deleted. (please know, I didn’t think my poems were great—it was truly a social event).

And I was thinking of actually finishing it, purely for myself because it rang with me as I was reading it. But what if I just forgot to attribute it? I don’t want to plagiarize, even if it’s for no one else but me.