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Virmeris Utralien

if you had an eye to see you would see what was written about our next apocalypse man, this world is a quagmire so much evil has spread and just on this day that looked good to die after the rain fell leaving the filthy world washed away and just tonight when all that was lacking in blessing finally seemed consecrated then... again we are pure mud steeped in squalor and suffering and even if it was epiphany the promise of the end of pain that arises every moment or if it was a false joy this little hope that insists we would never give up trying to live we would never think again at the idea of being purified for nothing

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Date: 4/11/2022 4:45:00 PM
Wow, Marco, this is great writing. I'm thinking concentration or readjustment camp? The imagery is striking and it elicits a sense of futility...yet "this little hope that insists." Am I totally off?
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Marco Chies
Date: 4/11/2022 6:42:00 PM
My initial idea with this poem is that we have spread iniquity so much that we will not escape a final judgment... this judgment would be the apocalypse. We deserve it, we believe we are purified and prepared for it, and then... we make mistakes again and deserve a new and worse punishment. guilt and atonement, Catholicism and Judaism, but it doesn't shy away from its own death camp scene, and in that you're absolutely right, Milton.

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