the heavy wind of age
brought in its flight
dust, food,
seeds split off from love,
petals wound with snakes,
cruel ash of dead hatred,
and everything flourished in the wounded mouth.
A web of passions started up
and the woeful dregs of being forgotten
gave root to the spreading tentacles,
the violet medusa of envy.
Neruda, from "To Envy"
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