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French 20th century poet Ranier Marie Rilke spoke of the metaphor of death, not unlike what your poem is urgently asking, 'that the death of true human creativity is at stake as a non biological agent enters society.

"Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes."

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Maybe all writers are writhers to a certain degree. I love this post..so real. It's not about empty words but about lived experience.

An image of you came to me while I was reading. Threadwalker... Balancing on a tight rope that stretches across chasms.

Isn't that what we all do? Crossing the gaping distance between each other, afraid we might fall?

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