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And then this guy, Duke "The Dumpster" Droese, stole my entire shtick.
然后這個(gè)人，杜克·“回收站”·卓斯，搶走了我所有的臺(tái)詞。
I was crushed, as if by a trash compactor.
我的心就像是被垃圾壓實(shí)機(jī)壓過一樣沮喪。
I thought to myself, "What now? Where do I turn?"
我問自己，“怎么辦？我還能做什么？”
Poetry. Like a boomerang, the thing I loved came back to me.
詩歌。我喜愛的東西像回旋鏢一樣又回到了我身邊。
One of the first lines of poetry I can remember writing was in response to a world that demanded I hate myself.
我記得我寫下的第一行詩歌是對(duì)這個(gè)讓我憎恨我自己的世界的回應(yīng)。
From age 15 to 18, I hated myself for becoming the thing that I loathed: a bully.
在15到18歲之間，我憎恨自己，憎恨我變成了我厭惡的樣子：一個(gè)恃強(qiáng)凌弱的人。
When I was 19, I wrote, "I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite."
19歲的時(shí)候，我寫道，“我將愛我自己，不去在乎自己”“是否站在自己討厭的位置。”
Standing up for yourself doesn't have to mean embracing violence.
自強(qiáng)不息并不表示你需要使用暴力。
When I was a kid, I traded in homework assignments for friendship, then gave each friend a late slip for never showing up on time, and in most cases, not at all.
當(dāng)我還是小孩子的時(shí)候，我用我的家庭作業(yè)換取友誼，然后又通過遲到避開所有的朋友，一般都不會(huì)有什么問題。
I gave myself a hall pass to get through each broken promise.
每次爽約我都能立刻原諒自己。
And I remember this plan, born out of frustration from a kid who kept calling me "Yogi," then pointed at my tummy and said, "Too many picnic baskets."
有次，一個(gè)小孩子讓我很沮喪，他一直叫我“修行者”，指著我的肚子說，“好大的野餐籃子。”因此我有了一個(gè)計(jì)劃。
Turns out it's not that hard to trick someone, and one day before class,
我發(fā)現(xiàn)原來戲弄一個(gè)人也不難，有一天快上課的時(shí)候，
I said, "Yeah, you can copy my homework," and I gave him all the wrong answers that I'd written down the night before.
我對(duì)他說“嘿，給你抄我的作業(yè)，”然后我把自己昨天寫好的錯(cuò)誤答案遞給了他。
He got his paper back expecting a near-perfect score, and couldn't believe it when he looked across the room at me and held up a zero.
他懷著滿分的期待去拿作業(yè)，卻得了0分，他無法相信，在教室的另一頭望著我，做出“零”的手勢(shì)。
I knew I didn't have to hold up my paper of 28 out of 30,
我知道我不用把自己接近滿分的作業(yè)舉起來給他看，
but my satisfaction was complete when he looked at me, puzzled, and I thought to myself, "Smarter than the average bear, motherfucker."
很奇怪，他看著我的時(shí)候，我感到很滿足，我對(duì)自己說，“比一般人聰明嘛，狗娘養(yǎng)的。”
