History of the Main Complaint

Should I bear a grudge against all those who failed to make the world properly?

Should I bear a grudge for all those who fail to make the world properly?

(Should I 'bear a grudge' 'for all those' who 'fail' to 'make the world' 'properly'?)

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That it's your job to interpret tears.

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That poetry is significantly aspirational.

Culture

Clover or abandonware?

Real Curses

Α stipend of consciousness.

Accountancy

'A fragile person with a floating consciousness. There are many of these.'

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That the poem refutes the longing to redeem it.
 

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That poetry is to imagine unenforceable principles.

Propinquities

• Its intimacy is unattributed.
• It's intimacy that is unattributed.
• Its intimacy is that it is unattributed.

On the Mother's Side

Knowing a quiet root, the mother refutes the profane with a sidewise glance.

 

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"Mothers are like that" – always unattributed, but only occasionally in scare quotes.

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A bifocal faith: I believe you, so long as you are what you are.