My Brain
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"My Brain" is a c. 1964 – c. 1966 poem written by Annabel Laurance,[1] then a 10-year-old girl in Uganda.[2]
After its 1966 quotation in The New York Times,[3] "My Brain" has been quoted by musicians, poets, and psychoanalysts for over 50 years.[4][5] These include composer Gershon Kingsley, band Perth County Conspiracy, Louis Dudek, and psychoanalyst Peter Levine.
"My Brain" was among 3,000 poems collected by Richard Lewis on a "world tour" of children poets of the English-speaking world.[3] "My Brain" was first published in 1966's Miracles, a global anthology of 200 poems by children.[3][1]