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Satish Verma

The flame eaters will
follow you. You want to bring
back inquisition.

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Ashes in hand, and
your pride, you climb in dark.
I would meet satans.

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The fish smells the man.
What was honesty? Dead pan― he
wants to return to sea.

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I'm really in love with the

I'm really in love with the line "the fish smells the man". Structurally, visually, metaphorically, this is a great poem, I feel. The message, if I am indeed beginning to unravel and understand it, is wrapped well within.