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SNpinkminotaur.bsky.social

Warming, pt. 4 / #poetry

Sleep was taken. Limp.
Without resistance.
Which we confused.
For consent. Fire riding.
Our absence. And where.
The forest would’ve.
Housed us. With patterns.
Enclosing the patterns.
Of my hands. Pumping.
The heart. To get back.
To work. Now it’s always.
Daytime. Sadness.
Fluttered. I remember.
How pink the inside.
Of sleep dried. Hollow as.
A glove. Or a bank.
Against the ribs. Of trees.
Scared of retribution.
I turned away. But secretly.
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bendawson.bsky.social

That was hopefully a fun game, and I’m sure there will be retribution.

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BWbrianwooley.bsky.social

"Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others."

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SSboleteful.bsky.social

I agree entirely. My emphasis is on how to cash out this talk of excuses. If to excuse is to conduct ourselves with infinite patience, that is hard to justify, but if not excusing means retribution, I am much more troubled.

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Mmuetschens.bsky.social

Random Game Time! It‘s still absolutely wild to me that they sent out promo copies for Ride to Hell for review! And I still cherish that piece of history

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bellaciao007.bsky.social

Read your piece. Have been obsessed with this the moment way back when Miller was given his brief during Trump’s tenure. American carnage. First immigrants, then their political enemies. No one on the other side of this is safe from retribution.

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Pposeur.bsky.social

That said, this is why I like to keep an element of violence in sports, so the other team can get revenge on celebrations by knocking his block off. We need a healthy fear of retribution.

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AJmobiusstrip8.bsky.social

a really great film. my only issue is with the brevity of the retribution sequence near the end.

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Pnotalawyer.bsky.social

this is the cycle of fascism. they identify an enemy, blame them for a problem, and exact retribution. but the problem remains, because the enemy was always a scapegoat, so a new enemy must be identified, and the cycle continues.

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