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Laura's avatar

This hit at my lately, mostly ungovernable attention span in its weakest joint and I'm really glad you wrote this. I also think part of the aversion you've mentioned having engaging with lengthy works online / preference or focus on short poetry does us a service, because you're so considerate in formatting as well as alerting us to what we're about to go through, hahaha! *Here is a poem, there will be some additional commentary...* haha, I genuinely love that, and I've never read the works you've referenced here, but this quote; "When our identity is in danger, we feel certain that we have a mandate for war" resonates down to whatever core piece of myself that cannot come unstuck when so many accoutrements have fallen away, witnessed by all the other gunk of identity-grout undeniably residing, too. This kinda made me wanna write poetry, albeit my own brand of bad, bad poetry wherein I forge stupid metaphors from visions of my soul as not-entirely-separate from a filthy bathroom with its limescale fixtures burdened or haloed by layer by layer by layer of cheap laminate or something and I don't do that much anymore. Thanks, Josh. P.S. I have no idea what I'm talking about either, but a lightning storm just now rolled in over where I am, and as any person who's been a child in the tropics knows, despite the scum decor of abandoned duty, a bathroom quickly becomes something more important than pretty. Ahhhhhhh I'm in a tin shed on a laptop powered by a 40 metre cable leading into my house and the wet beats pound down aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh nah she'll be right. I'm going to benefit from a re-read of your beautiful translation now.

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Trevor Kuether's avatar

I always think because of WW2, WW1 gets little rememberance or less so in our time. It's nice again to read your posts on the history from this perspective.

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