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Let me be honest. I am finding this difficult. Now, I like a challenge, a stretch, a bit of an obstacle course. โWrite about the decline of the British Empire in the form of a narrative poem in which your protagonist is an artichokeโ I read, and flex my fingers. โWrite a haiku to evoke the sensation of sibilance using only the first half of the alphabet.โ โWellโ, I think to myself, โthis should be fun.โ But โwrite about a system that isnโt workingโ? A system that isnโt working? Now? In 2026? ONE system? My favourite system that isnโt working? The sexiest system that isnโt working? The one giving me the most angst day to day? The one giving me the most existential dread? I am, as I say, finding this difficult. I will own that I have contemplated writing a thousand words on why the steady โall onโ setting on my fairy lights is the EIGHTH of seven options which must be sequentially activated to get there, because that is a system that some fool came up with and it definitely doesnโt work, and now who is paying the price, eh? But how can I write about my fairy lights whenโฆ. Whenโฆ. Whenโฆ.
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