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The poem imagines fear crossing a threshold where it stops being felt as fear.

The phrasing is simple but psychologically sharp. Fear becomes excessive enough to cancel itself, suggesting either numbness, courage, exhaustion, or a defensive refusal to keep naming fear as fear.

A paradox of saturation: 'WHEN FEAR / GET'S to / much / WE don't / HAVE it / ANYMORE.' Fear pushed past its limit cancels itself, the crude lineation enacting the spilling-over it describes.