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II.
toxic train track
metal waste raindrop
incarcerated too long too late
no reply.
faintly.
Risk until one always.
Any ways. Anyways.
fastforward. Visual rewind
incongruity. Incongruous.
Inferior absolutes. Taste
lingering remnant after
gauzy impossibility.
Ending. Search mystified.
Final helping of emptiness
Thursday 6th December 2018 2:13 pm
mothers
our mothers
are windows
through them
we see the world
and in them
we see the faintest
reflection
of our selves
they are not easy to
break
but neither are they
unbreakable
to break them
we run the risk
of injury
our knuckles crack
as does their glass
...
Monday 26th November 2018 10:01 pm
Surgeon
He dissected them
I donned rubber gloves
and pulled apart their organs
trying to understand
how it was
that I was any better than them
or even
any different.
—–
He loved the distance a pen could create
offering the safety of clinical observation
placing him behind the Plexiglas
and far above
so that he appeared clean and professional
all the while taking g...
Friday 23rd November 2018 1:01 am
I love you
I love you.
I have since the day I met you and I will love you deep in my wretched soul until the day comes when I take my last breath.
That breath, even then when it is my last precious ration of air, I will breathe it for you. I always breathe for you. That's what you taught me you see. By refusing to open your eyes to what could've been and what could always be you made me breathe for bot...
Wednesday 7th March 2018 10:10 pm
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