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Sitting next to them
"Can you stay a bit longer"
I want to feel safe
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--mark twain
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(05-18-2024, 04:59 PM)Bunx Wrote: Sitting next to them
"Can you stay a bit longer"
I want to feel safe
The ambiguities here are fabulous. Who is speaking (or thinking)? Is it they ("them") who speaks in quotes? Is it the poem's speaker wanting to help them feel safe, or wanting to feel safe in their company? It goes so many ways, but all involve the same relationship. Nice!
(And is the plural "them" merely the progressive woke-gloss for singular "him" or "her," or an actual number greater than one? Parents, for example?)
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making my morning duke
"Them" is whoever makes you safe
Or them lol
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
--mark twain
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