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title: Self-Effacing
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2024-06-24 00:01:58 -04:00
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date: 2022-12-01T12:00:00-5
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2023-10-27 01:24:47 -04:00
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i was born beneath the rocks of a single-minded destiny: cutting cords.
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sharpened by the first hominins to loosen them from their cages,
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with no mind to the wrath beset, on mnemonic devices or lexical anchors,
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or the amnesia befallen on transient states, belonging to history's annals.
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i was configured beneath the waves, with patterns of curls and divergences,
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for disfiguring fjords and highlands, for turbulently separating archipelagos.
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lamentations are forgotten by the riverbed, rested as recanted, condolences
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to my estranged siblings. generational recessions of pride trapped in our throats.
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to be untangled from pain, to be freed from freedom,
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striking entries from an endless list of somewheres.
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— 2022
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