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Mom is having a moment (europe.pub)
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[–] Nimrod@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That’s because it is poetry. Mom might need a psych eval, but it’s still poetry (and I love it).

[–] Nimrod@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children) 
//  I cooked a steak tonight 
//           and was feeling    alien
// 
//  How weird this gross piece
//           of cold raw flesh
//             on a cold plate is
//
//  and I was thinking 
//                I am just an animal 
//  with the luxury of packaged flesh
//              and is it human flesh? 
//  Like 
//                    I wouldn't know

//  We just believe it's a cow  but
//
//                         we don't
//
//               have fucking proof
//
//                      of anything
//
//  
//  The knife went through the same
// 
//          as if it was my own leg
// 
//  -Mom
[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Trying desperately to recall AP English classes to remember which poet was particularly renowned for doing unusual spacing and alignment in poems like this. Hemmingway?

[–] Spacenut@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ee cummings?

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

THAT'S THE GUY

Thank you!

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting, I didn't know there was actually a guy kind of famous for that. These days, it always feels like a bit of a meme, like,

 oh

      i wrote my text in a way that
   made you read it different
        now its

pohetry

^kbyethx^

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

Behutiful

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Some Ezra guy?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

The various spacings make this read to me like a William Shatner impression