draft 4: self-similar

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The philosophy being dialectical materialism. In pretty simplified terms the left half of the poem and the right would have their own contradictions until resolving these contradictions either at the end or by reading the entire poem traditionally.

I don't know if it's just the delusion of a sort of author's bias but I can see a cloud, maybe more so than a tree  because you can kinda see that skinnier spool of smoke at the bottom before it mushroom caps. I personally don't think the original draft had that consistency in shape because of the spacing in the final lines, then again the shape of smoke isn't always consistent of course

I generally am blind to philosophy, but that's one I've tried to study.  Anyway, go for it.  As to the cloud, I also see a Rohrsach test.

You might consider getting this moved to one of the critique threads.  People tend to be close-mouthed about Miscellaneous.

In the meantime, I will keep reading your poem.

TqB