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May 16, 2025  

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freedom

                                                    
irony
seems to be
a desk
with a stapler

and a slip of paper
with a crooked number

in exchange for
a tiny bit
of a soul.
Derma Kaput - on June 18 2007

I'd like this one even better with a pronoun at the end, i.e. "your soul."  that's probably just me though.


Anstey - on June 18 2007
I've been mulling that for the last 2 days. It seems to me that the more universal language SHOULD make this more widely relevant, but on the other hand the lack of the specific weakens the impact in a perceptible way. I am torn on which way to go with this.
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  • stephan

Derma Kaput - on June 18 2007

moving from the general to the more specific makes it more ominous.  which in turn makes it more humorous.  if it were mine, though, I'd be going back and forth just like you.  I always do.
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