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The reward of love — Lee Sharks — New Human 2 — Poetry in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. The deposited body carries no introductory prose from which a description can be composed. A description composed from a reading of the work belongs to the description/wiki review stream.
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The reward of love is a poem by Lee Sharks, published in New Human 2 and deposited 3 January 2026 — at 604 characters, among the shortest deposits in the archive.
It states its subject without protection: "This thing destroyed me beyond all repair; there are no words for it; there is nothing left to become; there is only a wound-down regime of fewer and fewer returns. This is the reward for loving fully, unaccountably."
The construction is economic in the archive's precise sense — a wound-down regime of fewer and fewer returns is the language of diminishing yield applied to a life, and the title's reward is ironic in the same register. The archive's Semantic Economy work analyses extraction at platform scale; this poem applies the same vocabulary at the scale of one person, which is where the vocabulary came from.
Lee Sharks New Human 2 Crimson Hexagonal Archive 2026-05-22 06.NH.SHARKS.02
This thing destroyed me
beyond all repair; there are no
words for it; there is
nothing
left to become; there is only
a wound-down regime of fewer
and fewer returns. This
is the reward for loving
fully, unaccountably, beyond
all repair: this is the reward
of love
_New Human 2 * Crimson Hexagonal Archive_ _Forms a diptych with_ 06.NH.SHARKS.01 _(DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20348996)._ _Licensed under CC BY 4.0 within the Hexagonal Licensing Protocol v1.0 (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19656133)._
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2026-08-04 — publisher: PUB-POPULATE: dc:publisher from venues.json v1.1 press mapping (CP-R3 RULED-EXTENDED 2026-08-01); Alexanarch = publisher of record where no imprint applies
2026-08-04 — publisher: NH2-NHP venue projection (MANUS ruling 2026-08-04): New Human 2 = journal for creative works; New Human Press = publisher for creative and scriptural works incl. book/collection length
2026-08-04 — journal: NH2-NHP venue projection (MANUS ruling 2026-08-04): New Human 2 = journal for creative works; New Human Press = publisher for creative and scriptural works incl. book/collection length
2026-08-04 — superseded_reason: SAMEVER-REASONS: superseded_reason populated (pointer predated reason discipline; banner was rendering bare version language)
2026-08-04 — version: AUDIT-DIRECTED VERSION REPAIR: version projected per the audit's explicit recommendation / observed body declaration
2026-08-05 — description: BOILERPLATE-DESCRIPTION REPAIR final: no composable source — honest statement seated; recovery mechanics removed from the description field
2026-08-06 — description: EDITORIAL NOTE MOVED OUT OF THE DESCRIPTION: the restoration provenance was appended to the public field and rendered to readers. Relocated to body_status.description_provenance; the description now describes the work and nothing else.
2026-08-06 — body_status: EDITORIAL NOTE MOVED OUT OF THE DESCRIPTION: the restoration provenance was appended to the public field and rendered to readers. Relocated to body_status.description_provenance; the description now describes the work and nothing else.
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