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Dart by Alice Oswald
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This took me an awful, awful long time to read. My attention span has been fucked these past two months. But anyway, today I am doing acid for the first time, and whilst waiting for the come up I read the whole thing. I think I’ve come up now, and the drug made me feel the poetry in a way I can’t quite describe, the sublime bits of being a body in a mass of roaring water, the interweaving of time and voices with the landscape, yes actually this poem makes a lot of sense now, my sober state was not receptive. Wow, I’m definitely tripping. Now it feels like my body is being zapped by tiny aliens. Apologies. I’m not sure if this poem would have had the same affect on me sober, or in any other state. I imagine I will have to go back and it will let me remember this trip. Oh well. Maybe I shouldn’t post this, but haha my thumbs are working overtime, let’s goooo
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Reading Progress

May 19, 2021 – Started Reading
May 19, 2021 – Shelved
July 3, 2021 – Finished Reading

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james incredible


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Jem Hai my favourite review i’ve read on here


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