“…independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn’t he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.”
“derision preemption – a life-style tactic; the refusal to go out on any sort of emotional limb so as to avoid mockery from peers.”-
Sorrow is better than laughter, she whispered
Sharpening the knife of her concupiscence
Drawing a razor’s edge across the wrist of commitment
Tears define your purpose and cleanse your soul, she mumbled
Hacking at the cords of her errant desire
Carving the yearning arms of safety and family
Cries hone the instincts and rebuke complacency, she sang
Slicing through passion with words of dark rejection
Cutting with lust and splittinghearts asunder in cleft derision
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