A darkness & chaos poem about hinge, tooth, door, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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There is another tooth inside the hinge, a dark one the door has kept from me. The room beyond is almost ordinary. That is what makes it difficult. I enter without solving anything and leave the latch to its secret.
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A reflective poem and dark alternative folk-rock lyric from the perspective of a child soldier, tracing obedience, hunger, survival and the right to remain human.
The familiar cannot be used as a permanent refuge once the speaker has seen its hidden instability.
A dark poem of bathroom, can't, and foresee, holding fear, fracture and survival in view.
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