{"id":7595,"date":"2025-08-08T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:04:29","slug":"poem-scene-buy-gaslight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/poem-scene-buy-gaslight\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Scene Buy Gaslight"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent years I have realized that literally anything can be gaslighted. This seems to be related to our huge capacity to rationalize, particularly when anything happens to get in the way of something we want. This poem is a meditation of this particularly lazy form of aggression.<\/p>\n

Scene Buy Gaslight<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It was
\nSoully then
\nEye real I\u2019s
\nIt was passable
\nToo gaslight everything
\nAnd any won
\nToo get
\nWhat I want
\nA knot too tall order
\nShort circuiting
\nMy hire self
\nAnd tripping
\nAwe that is
\nLooking up
\nJust complaining
\nLooking down
\nUp on
\nLow and be-holed
\nBe little me
\nThat scene
\nBuy gaslight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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