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Yes there are songs that can be considered poetry, but here we prefer the written or spoken word to those that are sung.
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning - by Leila Chatti
submitted 2 years ago by soundsituation from self.Poetry
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I turned to the myth of Narcissus as a way to understand a man I loved, but the myth ultimately revealed to me at least as much about myself. What interests me about Narcissus is not his vanity, which I think is a mischaracterization, but his desire, an obsessive yearning that is his undoing. I am that kind: one whose desire leads to self-destruction—one who knows this, and still chooses it.
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