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How hard it is to be soft

Like a copper screw

In a culture of steel nails

Managed by hammerheads

Dead-eyed sharks

Whose only recourse

To keep you on a straight and narrow course

Is to hammer you on the head

In short, sharp shocks

That rip the fabric of your inclusion

Into shreds

All for the sake of a quick fix

At their convenience

Which cannot acknowledge

What you bring

By way of conductivity and connectivity

In a natural communion

From everywhere into somewhere

An ingrowing spiral

From a slot receptive to turning

Around and around

Pooling together

What should never be split

By an arrow of time

That punches a hole

To admit the whole

That calls itself One

Alone without neighbouring

To slip in and slip out

In the short term

Without holding together

In the long run