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Benefits Who?

I'm told a rose that grows in shame, would weep
despite its chose name -
and petals shed from frozen wastes
can slice right through a tired mind as nice
as rotor blades...
...but metaphors are measures of subjective met experience,
not actual pain.

These metaphors can't measure up the weight of actual pain
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