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I... Inhabit a corner

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I am no genius;

the Joker... does not exist,

and I—like my heroes,

the people I admire—

am pathetic, at odds with a world

that cannot be destroyed,

and all my combative efforts

will turn to dust or mere spectacle...

I...

Inhabit a corner that will not fit

even on the shores of any god's island.

I am alone.

And I speak a language

incomprehensible and unnecessary.

I will never have anyone in the world to talk to,

and to stay alive, I must cease to be who I am

or remain in a corner that allows

everything else that exists

to humiliate me,

simply because I exist.

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  • maybe_im_wrong

    Reads like the corner is something the world keeps assigning, and the poem is half refusing to leave it. The useless language feels like the one this got written in.

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  • main_character_no

    The Joker not existing is the line I keep coming back to. No villain to turn into either, which leaves the corner as the only role.

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