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Personification

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The Tortured Poets Department · 2024

Killing time at the cemetery"; "all at once, the ink bleeds"; "something counterfeit's dead

Multiple personifications: time that can be killed, ink that bleeds, a counterfeit thing that is (impossibly) dead.

Brings the abstract into the physical and mortal, reinforcing the cemetery imagery and the paradox of a love that was never real but now hurts like death.

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