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This is not Eliot. There are times when it isn’t even Edward Lear (though John Donne does make a cameo appearance). What it is is very Curate’s Egg.
But if you can manage to eat your way around the less palatable bits (and thereby avoid a possibly fatal case of brain-poisoning) you may find a mouthful or two that will linger in the memory for a while—and perhaps even rearrange your mental furniture by a few inches...
"the walls close in as
cold air touches my skin
I'm tired of the lies
trying to pretend
that I'm not dying
I fake a smile
luckily they don't care enough
to dial into my real emotions
they couldn't bare
the truth
if only they tried
pealing through my layers
to see the real me
then maybe
they would finally love me"