[ Well... that's pretty ordinary, he's pretty sure he's the only one of their age group who knows as much poetry as he does and writes it too... ]

My mom teaches Japanese literature at the university, and I was homeschooled before January, so... you could say that. Mom used to have me write my own for homework, too. Mmm... Responses to poems and things like that. She still does, actually. [ .... ] Do you... Um, would you like to hear one...? I mean, I'm not really good at them--she's always telling me I could try to emulate this or that poet better--but I like writing them...

[ ...he's embarrassed to say that and will just be focusing really hard on his art because Mao doesn't seem like the type of guy who'd be interested in that kind of thing. ]