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Thu May 04, 2023 12:54 pm
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PLUME. PLUME. this takes so much SKILL, so much TIME, and I cannot believe you followed it relentlessly all through NaPo, oh my god, I am in pure AWE of your poetry. As someone who is such a sucker for dark humor and morbid imagery, your thread absolutely hits the spot. I also love how some of the deaths seem perfectly realistic (black lung, hunger, the mother who died during birth) and then in others it's completely absurd but so deliciously dark. (hung herself with prayer beads??? bled himself out??? CARRIED AWAY BY A STORK???? !!!!!!) It's like that perfect emotional balance between black comedy and genuinely hard hitting tragedies.

The seaman from Clapton poem also reminded me so much of Titanic, not to mention, the singer from Wales reminded me so very much of this particular image from the Mean music video by Taylor Swift (in case you were ever curious as to how I envisioned that one poem
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Anyway, you did such an incredible job this April <3
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"The trouble with Borrowing another mind was, you always felt out of place when you got back to your own body, and Granny was the first person ever to read the mind of a building. Now she was feeling big and gritty and full of passages. 'Are you all right?' Granny nodded, and opened her windows. She extended her east and west wings and tried to concentrate on the tiny cup held in her pillars."
— Terry Pratchett, Discworld: Equal Rites