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Rated: E · Poetry · None · #2350880

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Poetry ...
the desperate
exercise
of the socially wracked
Feigning with
words
what their confidence
lacks
Imploring
the reader
to embrace
and befriend
One step
from the needle
the bullet
— the end

(Rereading Kerouac: November, 2025)
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