ohhh, lovely. I can feel the vigor you're putting into this.

cut yourself jagged on words you didn’t even know you had
like saying a prayer
backwards
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and

you can become your own antithesis
you can sing your own breakaway song
you can build your own mercy from the ground
The sound of those lines is great - parallel as well as the vowels in song/ground.

I like being your own antithesis too. It makes me think of, um, marx. but yeah.

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