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Brady Putzke's avatar

feel it.

no profound wisdom from me, things are a slog for me too right now.

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Duane Toops's avatar

There's a profound wisdom that comes from knowing you're not the only one. Thanks so much for reading! That really does mean a lot to me!

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T Van Santāna's avatar

It's like a poem, this piece.

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Duane Toops's avatar

Thank you! I wanted a poem like structure, the feeling and tone of an essay or perhaps even a confession.

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T Van Santāna's avatar

Interesting! I got a sense of trading places—not empathy, exactly, but something very close to that. Like swapping lives back and forth.

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Duane Toops's avatar

I'm so glad you you mention that! I wanted to conjur a sense of something verging on dissociative. A kind of back and worth between resignation and rejection, between internalization and projection.

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