🧵 Thank you. ❤️

As always, your comments are too kind to me! And I'll take it! I've got another version brewing, but let's see if I can finish it. 🫠

Good!! You nailed it, per usual!

Oh, you have absolutely gone for the jugular. The moves between ancient evidence and modern behavior makes the politicians seem like specimens being excavated and studied. And then the contrast with the brutality of the ending. You delivered on the savage satire my friend!

Oh, Dean! This is unsettling in such a controlled way. What strikes me is how the poem gradually reverses the relationship between the speaker and the photographs. The shift from seeing to being seen is especially effective with the theme of bites.

I didn't even notice that! I love the idea of a series!

Buuuuuut. But. That middle passage is so flawed that I love how it messes everything else up if you start tugging at it at all. Or should I say biting at it, at all?

Thank you so much, Merril! I always appreciate your comments!!

Thank you! That means so much to me!

Thank you. That means so much to me.

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much, Dean! You know how much your comments mean to me. I am so glad this did some work!

🙏 Thank you!!

Your comments always mean so much to me, Paul. I am glad to hear that this from you!

Thank you so much for your kind words!

Yes! Exactly that, John. I absolutely love this piece. Thank you for sharing it. The last line is fantastic. Really punches for guts in the best possible way.

Thank you. Yes, that was on my mind.