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most sapient things
I’ve found
live this contradiction
where they can’t be alone
but being not-alone
exposes them to all sorts of ails.
They need a community to make all the food
but might all get poisoned by the same thing,
they need an entire economic system to make a product
but it might collapse just as easily as produce,
they require sympathy
but may catch scorn instead,
they need happiness from others
but might receive venom in its place.
But they always
go back for more
cuz they can’t
survive without it.
Even the ones
treated like a cancer
keep going back
for a couple scraps
of penitent existence
because
they have to–
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