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life in oblique angles - by kitty - stir the pot

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an ode to the off-centre

I have always distrusted symmetry. The way it lays things out so neatly, as if clarity were ever-so-simple. As if the existence of one thing is entirely, glaringly obviously, emblematic of its mirror. There are shapes I therefore understand better than others. Not the clean arc of cause and effect, not the perfect circle of closure, but the fragment, the sidelong, the interrupted. A notebook packed with beginnings. A childhood photo of mine - eight or nine years old, green t-shirt, holding a bow and arrow with all the grace and intention expected of one at that age (which is to say,…

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