metropolises are so fucking prepared
for loneliness
every park and every embankment
every wet bench up an empty avenue
these are for your disposal
you are worse than others if
they choose them rather than you but
what about if
they do choose loneliness rather than you?
are you worse than everyone else?
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
© All rights reserved 2021
unbolt me 
nice philosophical rampart! 🙂
Drew
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Why, thank you! 🙂
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Something being lonely is good, as you won’t get hurt or won’t get a bad company.
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Or someone else’s bad breath even! Yes, it’s a good point, Ritish. 🙂
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Mmm, and as intended, that provokes our thoughts 🙂
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Yup, Tati’s like that. Always rudely poking at people’s brains. 😛
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She has a nibble way with the poker 🙂
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This is thought provoking, nice one 👍
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Thanks so much, CB! 🙂
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I’m delighted by your prose and style, Tony. There’s a tension in this that I simply adore, and there’s a kind of sarcastic pain that feels like it hits to the heart. While I don’t want to lose myself in your internal links, I find the entire format fresh. Again, it’s a delight.
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Thanks so much, Masa. I’ll pass your compliments along to Tati. She will be so delighted with your kind assessment of her efforts here! 🙂
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Whoops! Didn’t realize that was coming from Ms. Tetiana! Please indeed send my compliments!
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I most certainly will, and please don’t worry. No harm done or offense taken, I assure you! 🙂
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A reminder that loneliness is a choice—know self, no self, thus you are never alone, or so one of the sutras has it—my right? Anyway, dug this. Thanks !
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An interesting point there! Thank you for reading!
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Interesting use of color in your writing to highlight certain words and influence mood.
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Thank you so much! And thank you for reading!
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Isolation and loneliness are great companions, I always add a stranger to spice things up a bit–now and again.
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But… but… what about ‘stranger danger’? 😛
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Oh! Perhaps you could perk up your loneliness by running and hiding from strangers, you know– hide without the seek
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Or become a stalker! Er… no… scratch that.
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Mmmmm, a bit of angst showing through in this post? It did move me though.
Sit down on the wet stone,
Wet eyes say ‘leave me alone,’
Not welcome, comforting smiles,
Leave me be, with my bloody piles.
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Holy crap are piles the worst! Well, from what I’ve been told…
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Yes, I am worse than everyone else. I choose loneliness so I don’t hurt anyone else. Great powerful poem well done.
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Thanks so much, Mason!
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You’re welcome.
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