OddWritings
Cold Comfort

This cross-chain word-unit palindrome poem explores the concept of disillusionment. Like all word-unit palindromes, it can be read both backwards and forwards word-by-word.

SCARCITY INFO: The digital collectible of this poem exists in the following blockchain/format/price combinations:

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1. Polygon : the text on graphics. 5 MATIC.
   5 copies:
   OpenSea Rarible

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This means that there are a total of 5 copies of the poem, spread across the Ethereum, Polygon, and Tezos blockchains. No copies have yet been sold, and so THIS NUMBER OF COPIES WILL INCREASE (decreasing scarcity).

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SO WHAT DOES THIS POEM LOOK LIKE?

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text on graphics :

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I READ THE POEM. I'M CONFUSED.

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There is no one "right way" to interpret a poem; it can be interpreted many ways, depending on how the poem is written and what experiences each individual reader has had in their life. I'll outline here some notions I had while writing the poem, as a way of spurring your own ideas on interpretation and meaning.

• all of the main verbs in the first half of the poem are in the past tense


• all of the main verbs in the second half of the poem are in the present tense


• the first half of the poem contains cold children and ends with hot parents. the second half begins with hot parents and ends with cold children.


• "comfort women" are those women who were forced into sexual relations with Japanese soldiers (men) during the second world war


• snowmen are not "real" men


• Japan is known as the "land of the rising sun"


• the Arctic is known as the "land of the midnight sun" because there the sun rises (and sets) only once a year


• the Shinto religion of Japan involves ancestor worship.


• souls of the deceased can be described as "spirits."


• some alcoholic drinks can be described as "spirits."


• drinking alcohol gives the illusion of warmth due to vasodilation, which ironically inhibits the body's defense against cold


• children forced to stay inside due to bad weather sometimes draw themselves doing outside activities


• the drawing of something is not the same thing as that something