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Patris's avatar

May this not be autobiographical, it has too much pain and power. The sacrifice was you as well as your pet, the price of refuge for millions…

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Thank you for the restack, dear Patris 🩵

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Rabbits. Breed if a date comes along. Becomes a habit to follow along in a wake with wounds that slowly become more than less. Innocent rabbit unjustifiable soup de jour. I need to ask Alice. Down in the deep hole dug fugitive to a thug. Reminds me of “Revenge is a dish well served warm.”

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

💙

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Weston Parker's avatar

He probably knew you had more feelings for the rabbit than for him. A stunted man, with a scrawny heart who didn't deserve you or a rabbit.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

There are aches that never go away, wounds that never heal, seas we think we have crossed but we've already drowned in.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

thank you for the restack, Paul 💫🤍

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

I might have missed this first time around, Chen. I like it.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

No, you didn't miss it.

Thank you, dear Paul

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

Did I read it before?

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

of course.

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

I hope I don’t have an RFK jr. brain worm.🪱 I think I like the white rabbit, maybe better than a big cat that drinks vodka.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

I had to google the guy)) Sorry..

My brain can take just so much.

Granted, it is still working very very badly now. The brain. Maybe it reflects well, everything, because everything doesn't show signs of working well either. Maybe, besides this and that -it's but a mirror. Disintegrating.

But no I don't think so 🤍

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

Yes, very little shows signs of working well right now.

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Mahdi Meshkatee's avatar

Brutal...

Bizarre, peppered with a Lynchian atmosphere.

Breath, taken and held until the end.

There is something disturbing in the narrative that clutches at my heart. It is the kind of story that has a painful truth at its core but never lets it truly reveal itself.

I hope you're breathing now, Chen.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

I try to.

Thank you so much, Mahdi

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

and big thank you for the restack 💫

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

..you all paid me, each in their way, the biggest compliments probably a writer can recieve. I'm very grateful

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

thank you for the restack, dear Fotini

🤍🤍🤍

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

I think you are so talented. From one side, you write so lightly, like not making any effort, but from the other side, you are like на лезвии ножа, and your nerves are bare. The same bareness and tension are in your poetry. That combination is rare. You take a very high note, and your reader is subdued. I am.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Thank you, dear Larisa. I've no words. I'm very humbled. Thank you

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

It's my sincere feeling.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

❤️

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Смышленый Малыш Габриэль's avatar

Non-related: that girl on the avatar, why is her nose so red?

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

To remind of a rabbit somehow. I searched for a picture for quite some time, back then and one of my criteria was ....I don't know, some space where they remind each other.

It's a photo (artistic of course) by Cristina Otero. If I remember correctly. Moment. yes, I do:

https://cristinaotero.com/artworks/

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