Nemesis

superlative in wrath as one who avenges nemeses sometimes a man out of hate is subsumed in sounds propagating the use of onomatopoeias stomping slapping and gerunding the ancient and eternal anachronism of what is now in the cocoon and now is in larva and what is this painful scream eroding the deaf world... this man this insect the rare element that rubs its stems swirls in the air and like a plume of lead falls too mature in this life of less. in wrath he utters the sounds of this holocaust. he yearns and desires the cataclysm so if a big earthquake breaks the plates there is a breakdown in gravity and the shaft rebalances the glasses in the bars and the transit of capitals, the lines of cars naturally reborn and it's on the oil-splattered roads where men test the speed of their anguish and while the sun illuminates what he doesn't even know that man silences his anger chewing and swallowing the gerunds once more.

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L Milton Hankins

Date: 6/2/2022 5:18:00 PM

These images are definite and stark, but i'm not sure I can adequately analyze this piece. It seems rather personal and, if I may say so, self-deprecating. Help???

Marco Chies
Date: 6/2/2022 5:30:00 PM

nemesis is the archetype of revenge. I imagined someone using onomatopoeias in gerunds to complain about their condition of life, intends to take revenge on a world that is evil in its essence, annihilating the earth and civilization. to him the world is deaf to his lamentations. he realizes that an earthquake doesn't change anything, so he forcibly swallows his wails. literature...