After years of careful analysis
I've come to the conclusion that nouns
are the problem.
Proper nouns especially.
To say:
I tried to sit down on the chair
but it fell out from beneath me
and I hit the floor.
To say:
I tried to sit down on the -
but it fell out from beneath me
and I hit the-
It would be melodramatic to say
I lost you
but to say
I lost -
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Not to be a curmudgeon (which I very obviously am being at all times of my life), I believe you aren't using the phrase "proper noun" correctly. Isn't a proper noun something like "Istanbul", not "city"?
Yes.
You are a curmudgeon.
I know. I'm sorry.
I like the poem, though. I wonder if you even need the n dashes, if the empty space would be enough?
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