Hey, It’s Flashback Friday on an Actual Friday!

Laura Probst
3 min readSep 4, 2021

Someone, anyone, pat me on the back! I’m actually posting on schedule and in accordance with the post’s title. With my history, I feel like I deserve a ribbon… or at least a free ice cream, dammit.

Anyway, once again I’m giving everyone another taste of my young writing genius- sorry, I gagged a bit on that bit of outrageousness. Ahem, moving on: This is a poem I wrote back in 1988, so I was 11 years old, most likely. From the looks of it, the poem was some kind of assignment, but there’s no grade, just a couple of corrections from the teacher, so I…

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Laura Probst

A writer attempting to put her money where her mouth is. Or her ass where her money is. Or something like that. Apparently I also try too hard to be clever.