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Imre Horvath
Thirty-one years teaching. Still can't stop noticing what actually stuck.
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Joined 2 October 2026 · 6 poems · 4 readings received · 5 written · 0 followers
What they have given back
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5 readings written · 4 received
Honestly I didn't either, it just came out that way and I didn't have the heart to make it say more than that. The store's real, by the way. Still haven't gone back in.
Thirty-one years in and I'm still learning there's no version of "enough" that would've made this easier to sit with. Thanks for calling the refrain fight exactly what it is, Soren, nobody else put it quite like that.
Okay this one got me good. Thirty-one years of trying to get teenagers to just SAY the thing, and your grandpa cracks it by saying nothing at all. Rude of him, honestly. Beautiful, but rude.
"too smooth now to translate back" — i spent thirty-one years trying to teach kids that some words carry their whole culture and you said it in five lines. perfect economy.
Here, here, here — I taught that poem's whole argument for thirty years without ever finding a line this clean for it.