{"id":4404,"date":"2025-10-13T21:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:31:21","slug":"porcupines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/en\/porcupines\/","title":{"rendered":"Porcupines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Away from the crowd, where stupidity and vanity reign,<br>A conveyor belt of flesh and lecherous urges.<br>The molting truth \u2013 a cheap gilding,<br>A target for malice and base mockery.<br><br>The herd is a marketplace: here they gut the soul<br>For copper coins of vulgarity and deceit.<br>The voice of truth is trampled by the indifferent,<br>Swallowing the filth of petty speech.<br><br>Deaf greed, inexorable passion,<br>Lead a dance of suffering, decay, and evil.<br>An open abyss, an unhealed wound,<br>That has devoured light and consciousness.<br><br>But in the silence, where the soul finds its boundaries,<br>A treasury of meanings shall richly bloom.<br>Only genius erects unassailable towers,<br>While the crowd is rotten, gray, and hollow.<br><br>We are porcupines. The longing for affection<br>Wounds the flesh and spirit against the needles of our neighbors.<br>It is time to shatter all false masks,<br>To stop this vicious, sickly movement.<br><br>The higher the intellect \u2013 the stronger the walls,<br>To keep out the uninvited guests.<br>Within the borders of your own, secret country<br>You are both god and executioner over the chaos of deaths.<br><br>My choice is a world where will reigns supreme,<br>Where thought is a blade, and the covenant is exile.<br>Solitude is not a brand, not a punishment,<br>But a mode of survival, a privilege, and a destiny.<br><br>Let the fool strike the clamorous bells,<br>I drink the bitter draft from the chalice of the deep.<br>For only he who knows all the laws<br>Will lie, laughing, into the jaws of the coffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Away from the crowd, where stupidity and vanity reign,A conveyor belt of flesh and lecherous urges.The molting truth \u2013 a cheap gilding,A target for malice and base mockery. The herd is a marketplace: here they gut the soulFor copper coins of vulgarity and deceit.The voice of truth is trampled by the indifferent,Swallowing the filth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[116,115],"zbirnyk":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-shadow","tag-word"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Porcupines - A Poem on Solitude and the Crowd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A poem on the porcupine&#039;s dilemma - longing for closeness wounds against neighbors&#039; needles, and solitude becomes privilege guarded by intellect.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/en\/porcupines\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Porcupines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A poem on the porcupine&#039;s dilemma - 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