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Gaganpreet
Kaur INDIA - USA The Masked Philosopher seven rejections from seven PhD programs— it’s all you ever wanted to do there is no plan B, you refuse to compromise you, who bails before it can hurt you you are standing before me now, smile of a stoic as if this is a temporary setback, as if you are Sylvia Plath and never mind seven seventeen rejections won’t break your spirit but it must hurt— like a punch in the wall, like being dumped, the icy water pricking your skin before you begin to drown, like dreamless sleep it must hurt like nothing you ever knew because when the stoic fades you resemble Icarus in the moment of his fall, not fighting, not reaching because he cannot comprehend
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