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I thought of that recently

“Someone recently asked me if I liked poetry…” Asking someone if they like poetry is an intimate question. It’s not the casual language of small talk. I assumed you were trying to communicate with me about something other than e.e. cummings. Remember when you believed in my nuanced understanding of the human condition? The choice of [...]
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Eulogy

Here, then, lay our reflections Silent hymns to our complicity The capricious change of heart and The biases of memory The rapture of despair and The inevitable agony Of off-white lies and furtive cries And doe-eyed volatility The promise of redemption And shame at our complacency Duplicitous omissions That mock our claims of honesty I burn for a reprise Of our consumptive, common fallacy The brief joy of our [...]
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I love you but you’ve chosen darkness

In times of trouble, we invent definitions of our desires as unique. We forget that somebody in this world, probably more than one, is sick of the person or situation we put on a pedestal. We incorrectly believe wants are needs. We exaggerate the importance and the value of what we desire and choose pain [...]
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