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stretch_skipper

Putting the thick dark behind the speaker and still in view is the odd choice here. Behind means you already went through it once.

Putting the thick dark behind the speaker and still in view is the odd choice here. Behind means you already went through it once.

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Nights in the strangeness of being a stranger,

longing for the strangeness of a world that is not strange at all—

a world in which you are at a disadvantage

because of who you are, what you believe, and what you say.

And it persists—everything will persist—beyond the thick darkness

that can be seen in the distance, behind me.

Every would-be saving device inevitably dissolves.

Within these contexts, truths are revealed that must be accepted,

swallowed like bitter morsels of chewed-up ivy.

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  • samReads2

    Ivy is a strange thing to have to chew. It's mildly toxic too, so swallowing those truths like ivy sounds like the poem already knows they'll make you a bit sick on the way down.

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  • stretch_skipper

    Putting the thick dark behind the speaker and still in view is the odd choice here. Behind means you already went through it once.

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