Prevent absolutely-positioned elements from overlapping with text

Question

I have a unique situation here.

Essentially, I have an absolutely positioned block of text, which must be absolutely positioned due to design limitations.

I

Answer 1

Is a solution to create another div (div2) that overlaps the absolutely positioned div (div1), but is itself invisible? Then the rest of the text would avoid overlapping div2...

Sketched this out here: http://jsfiddle.net/VKYwD/8/

Not entirely clear on what your constraints are though.