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foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”
Swept up in the Instagramization of the 2010s, the contemporary poetry world saw an exaltation of ‘honesty’ as an aesthetic priority. Poetry not as craft, but as ‘outlet,’ with the goal not of developing ourselves and enriching our understanding of the world, but of sitting more comfortably with how we already were and what we already believed. Wat
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I stand in a caffeine-fueled craze
dazed, I stacked the cups of midnight aid
A panel of mirrors I now face
No—it’s a panel of judges
with smirks like smudges on their face
I ought to know better, yet I’m here
Who are these people—a jury of fear?
“I hear I’ve been forsaken,” I exclaim
Then, a black-robed man adresses my plea:
“Time’s up, kid! You’re a sham—a... See more
dazed, I stacked the cups of midnight aid
A panel of mirrors I now face
No—it’s a panel of judges
with smirks like smudges on their face
I ought to know better, yet I’m here
Who are these people—a jury of fear?
“I hear I’ve been forsaken,” I exclaim
Then, a black-robed man adresses my plea:
“Time’s up, kid! You’re a sham—a... See more