Ode to Metadata

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The first thing I wrote when I started this essay was, "Written 2026-09-01." Then I wrote "Idea long before that". Then I wrote "Idea and title 2022-07-30".Does this sound tedious? A song that took me, probably, a day to six months to finish? Forget what order the three chords go in?Yes, yes I am. Often, I write something, or write a song, and then notice a similarity to some other work.

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