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Your feeling unexplained about my MRE poem is actually good feedback. I was trying to say more by not-saying than by saying, but if I didn't say enough, that could be an indication of where the poem might go in a revision. I tried to capture a feeling with phrases like "impatient for results" and "what will become of lunch / when supply chains..." The sense of uncertainty about the security of what's fundamental to living: food. In the face of worries about the world, economic changes, environmental collapse, and so on... That's the idea, or the nebulous feeling complex, behind what I was trying to say, or not-say...
Your feeling unexplained about my MRE poem is actually good feedback. I was trying to say more by not-saying than by saying, but if I didn't say enough, that could be an indication of where the poem might go in a revision. I tried to capture a feeling with phrases like "impatient for results" and "what will become of lunch / when supply chains..." The sense of uncertainty about the security of what's fundamental to living: food. In the face of worries about the world, economic changes, environmental collapse, and so on... That's the idea, or the nebulous feeling complex, behind what I was trying to say, or not-say...
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