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bristolstreet  ·  3426 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Essential Tremor by Elizabeth Metzger

"Three blank dice"--I love that. You roll, you're hoping, and it's the only impossible result that is worse than the worst possible outcome.

    are no longer the beloved.

    I take a machete to a tulip.

    Where death is something you can fuck up

and

    the angel has a harelip

are all such dissonant, harsh lines--and I think it's partly because they end on an unstressed syllable, stopping on the "downturn."