um...where's the subtle part?
you have to make assumptions about your readership and trust the reader that you make for yourself to put things together.
you can't talk down to them or you'll end up writing a best seller.
one thing i've learned--for what it's worth--is that it's better to make things that can be taken in a number of ways. your intented meaning is just one of them. allow folk the space to make alternate versions of what they're reading without imagining them to be wrong for doing it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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