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Ella: | Who's sane? Who's insane? There's something curiously political about that dichotomy. |
Juanita: | In fact, I'm not even sure that a dichotomy is warranted. I believe all of us navigate around a constantly changing spectrum of sanity/insanity. |
Ella: | Yeah, and unconsciously, most of us have a way of believing anything too far from our own views is insane. What I like about this poem is the way it points out how words can roast the soul. What is poetry but a fuel to ignite the mind? |