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Divine Inyang Titus's avatar

Beautiful, this; freeing, in a way; deft-moving, unsentimental, pretty, damned.

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Adeyinka Doja's avatar

You called it freeing. I was trying to describe the weight. You felt released instead. I'm thinking about the distance between what I meant and what they received. I'm thinking the distance is where the beauty lives.

Divine Inyang Titus's avatar

Maybe even ugliness too, and various other aesthetics of interpretation. Some things must stink because they are received that way, not because they were thus gifted, and vice versa. I'm thinking many physical systems mirror this; the stars, up close, are violent majesties, but in the space between what they give and what we receive, enough attenuation occurs to transmute beauty.

Obaditan Oluwakorede O's avatar

I imagined, after reading this that I somehow found your journal. That I read it. You are funny though. You made me laugh more than once .

Adeyinka Doja's avatar

Haha. No no, my journals are more messy and bare.

Marvin Samuelovich Okenikov's avatar

sublime, as usual. "Running? Not ever." this is so real.

Adeyinka Doja's avatar

Thank you. Do you run too?

Marvin Samuelovich Okenikov's avatar

yeah, i do. or used to. been in a slump since january. I'll resume very soon though 😌

Abeke Egbin's avatar

I enjoyed reading this ❤️❤️❤️

Ella's avatar

Why am i reading my own brain😭