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Mira Gonzalez (born May 28, 1992) is an American poet. Her first collection, i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, was published by Spencer Madsen of Sorry House press on January 31, 2013. According to one source, she writes about "drugs, sex, loneliness, laziness, recklessness, self-loathing" in an "extremely humorous and warm manner." According to Liza Darwin in Nylon magazine, Gonzalez is part of a "whole new crop of cool girl poets" whose work is "clever, totally unfiltered, and peppered with twisted insight and refreshing humor." She has been published in magazines including Vice, Hobart, and Muumuu House. In 2015, Gonzalez and Tao Lin released Selected Tweets, a collaborative double-book featuring selections from three of her Twitter accounts, as well as visual art and "extras". Gonzalez has described her writing process as follows:

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I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

Disappointing, Edited, Editing, Kind, Self, Tweets

To me, Twitter often feels like shouting things into a two-way mirror that I know has people behind it, maybe even people I know, and they are definitely listening, but mostly remain perfectly silent.

Mirrors, Two, People, Definitely, Twitter, Maybe

It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.

Emotional, Insane, Like, State, Want

For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts.

Ashamed, Feels, Reason, Say, Shameful

I will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience.

Imagine, People, Sometimes, Tweeting

I often get asked by people 'Is your Twitter real?' and things of that nature. I'm never sure how to respond to that. My Twitter account is completely 'real' in that everything I tweet is something I have earnestly thought or something that has actually happened to me.

Actually, People, Real, Tweet, Twitter

I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.

Across, Consciousness, Manic, People, Tweet, Tweeting

I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.

Comfortable, Conversation, Internet, Real, Things

Sometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't feel I can say otherwise. Those tweets have a specific sense of desperation to them, because I write them when I feel like I don't have anyone else to talk to - as if Twitter is the only thing that will accept my insanely inappropriate thoughts without judgement.

Accept, Audience, Judgement, Mind, Tweet, Writing

I think my most shameful thoughts are the things people relate to the most, because everyone has questionable thoughts sometimes, and it's easy to feel incredibly alienated and lonely when you feel like nobody else is having those thoughts too.

Everyone, Like, Lonely, People, Relate, Thinking

I often tweet things that I would feel too horrified
embarrassed
ashamed to say to a friend or loved one, even though most of my friends and loved ones read my Twitter account.

Account, Ashamed, Friend, Loved Ones, Ones, Tweet

In the space between our bodies there is a cup holder filled with pennies a distance which can often take years to cross.

Cup, Distance, Love, Take, Years