obfuscate
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Pronunciation: /ˈɒbfʌskeɪt/
verb [with object]
1. Make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible: the spelling changes will deform some familiar words and obfuscate their etymological origins
1.1. Bewilder (someone): the new rule is more likely to obfuscate people than enlighten them
Origin late Middle English: from late Latin obfuscat- 'darkened', from the verb obfuscare, based on Latin fuscus 'dark'.
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"Obfuscator, obfuscate, make my brain as flat as a cake," muttered the new girl, tapping her sparkly pen against the page. Her book was most definitely not open to the chapt
the thing is
that when the music
beats at my temples,
when these voices
surge and crash over my head,
i lose myself in the tide;
the thing is
i have been adrift
without a compass,
sans dictionary for
the language of wind or stars;
the thing is
i have been building a shelter
out of my own life-raft
and dressing the gaps
with pieces of my soul.
the thing is—
i have been teetering and now
all of my walls
are coming
down.