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"Why do they hate it so much?"

"My impression was that they had lost their heads, did not know how to deal with the approaching danger, and hoped to keep the public in ignorance of its exact nature until a plan had been evolved." --Ice

Tanka.

"cold winter night
at times
the loneliness of three lines"

--@merelypoetry.bsky.social via @evecastle.bsky.social

"...the font and the date and the stone carving’s severity speak to me on this brutally inaugural day."