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"-- "are we bad?", he wondered perplexed as if he'd never lived. What dark thing is it that we need, what greedy thing is this existence that makes a hand grasp like a claw? and yet that greedy wanting is our strength and our clever and helpless children are born from our darkness and inherit it, and beauty is this dirty wanting, wanting, wanting -- oh body and soul, how to judge you if we love you?"

so far this "poetry" collection reads like a cool girl occasionally opens her iPhone notes app and writes quirky little observations (scatological and/or sexy mostly)* about millennial living. not to be an asshole, but when will the butchering of the poetry medium stop?

*lots of cool white girls rn are writing loudly about scatology/sex (i.e. lisa hanawalt, chloe caldwell, lena dunham). idk why... is this feminism?

holy fuck i want this to end

Slowly, word by word, as if battling progressive paralysis of the tongue, he confessed that he hadn't talked to anyone for several weeks, and evidently his capacity to articulate speech had waned.