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Josh Datko's avatar

Desensitization is defense, yes. Nice poems and prose.

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mskfb's avatar

I had missed your last 3 or 4 poems, my friend. I liked them very much.

There are some very well-crafted lines in these last entries. I especially liked “Babylon was never Babylon/ to those that lived within her” and the first two lines of this poem here about the chicken truck.

Resensitization is hard, and frankly, scary, when it comes to the huge abyss of human suffering wrapped up in the addiction crisis. I think my hospital work, to me, feels like a place where I can resensitize in a controlled environment. But the danger is that I feel like I’ve “done my good deed for the day” once I leave, and it paradoxically reinforces the desensitization.

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