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[–] 36 points 6 months ago* (8 children)

That’s because it is poetry. Mom might need a psych eval, but it’s still poetry (and I love it).

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)
    //  I cooked a steak tonight 
    //           and was feeling    alien
    // 
    //  How weird this gross piece
    //           of cold raw flesh
    //             on a cold plate is
    //
    //  and I was thinking 
    //                I am just an animal 
    //  with the luxury of packaged flesh
    //              and is it human flesh? 
    //  Like 
    //                    I wouldn't know
    
    //  We just believe it's a cow  but
    //
    //                         we don't
    //
    //               have fucking proof
    //
    //                      of anything
    //
    //  
    //  The knife went through the same
    // 
    //          as if it was my own leg
    // 
    //  -Mom
    
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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Trying desperately to recall AP English classes to remember which poet was particularly renowned for doing unusual spacing and alignment in poems like this. Hemmingway?

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