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    Existence and Imperfection
    Existence and Imperfection
    Existence and Imperfection
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    Existence and Imperfection

    By Jesse Bodley

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    A collection of poems inspired by grief and existential malaise. Existence and Imperfection is a poetic portrait of Human cruelty as a simulacrum framed by the cruelty of nature, being one and the same entity represented by  emulative phenomena; past atrocities being only a parallel to the experience of the present moment, whether directed by the hand of man, or of some elusive concept colloquially known as God. A tribulation of existential horror and admitted malaise experimenting with panpsychism and the seemingly emergent escapism of a universal mind in perpetual torment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJesse Bodley
    Release dateNov 6, 2023
    ISBN9798223119098
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