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I like this poetry collection so far. The formatting is very artistic

🖤❤ 💙🩵🤍🩷💜

reclaiming this book from my ex OOPS

I have reached the second half of the book

I may have had a little cry

I'm not sure if the most deep and profound and personality defining poetry collection I've read or something weirdly deep but pedantic
It's got charm and character and I'm loving it

A Stone
A heart that beats very slowly.

A Heart
A stone that breaks twice a second.

Against Waiting
[…]
Waiting is a monstrous way of giving in.
[…]
Waiting is a stationary form of walking.
[…]
Waiting, broken, is a bad way to be found.
[…]
Closing, cloaking, shaking, choking, are all the same as waiting.

I Love to Hear Her Speak
a cling peach slithering out from its tin
a lip gloss ground into paste by the teeth
a burnt clutch scribbling down from the pass
a cowpat drilled by extravagant heels
a hangnail snatching a lark by the throat
a wire thong under a cage crinoline
a crazed screen slicing a covetous thumb
a quotetweet high on the sodium moon
a plum duff smelting its thruppenny bit […]

Wow, the audiobook is produced in such an interesting way, I'm so curious how it's done on page... Might do a re-read on a physical copy / ebook. Many of the poems have two sound tracks that overlap to fascinating effects.

13 minute poem The Worker is amazing and it feels so comforting to me right now and touching my anxiety about my work in such an intense way. Really great.