Guest Blogger Megan Kruse, “Being John: On Sorrow, Writing, and Transmigration,” for Powell’s Books
I don’t remember how I stopped believing that I was John Lennon. Only that the conviction slipped away… Maybe it’s a stretch, to try to fasten an adolescent delusion to the bigger question of why writing sustains us. I imagine that everyone finds their own ways to face loss and bear up a broken heart. Still, I know that is what writing has given to me — new chances. The ability to rewrite, escape, and begin to understand.
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