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Warning: these are sad poems, the first one is personal, confessional sad and the second one is 'people are shitty and ruining the plant' sad. I hesitated to post them because I want this space to be positive and uplifting as a rule, but I like them both for different reasons. And, let's face it, a lot of poems are sad. They were both on the list of list poems.

String Theory by Sonya Huber

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Nothing Wants to Suffer by Danusha Laméris

Nothing wants to suffer. Not the wind
as it scrapes itself against the cliff. Not the cliff

being eaten, slowly, by the sea. The earth does not want
to suffer the rough tread of those who do not notice it.

The trees do not want to suffer the axe, nor see
their sisters felled by root rot, mildew, rust.

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