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her detailed mind
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even asymmetrical minds will become parallel for a short time
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bedsheet
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where did all our time go?
why’d we pass so quickly?
we hid under the bedsheets too often
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swell my chaos
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“the future is a cold one
i say we w
arm it up”
thus the inchworm raged and raged
the tapeworm continued his venture
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bone shave
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why must i continue like this?
the boiling never stopped
loneliness is a good friend
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glass shave
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can i go now?
i would like to go home
BUT THE SOUP ISN’T READY
another window to be replaced
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look at your imagination take off!
a flurry of flaps
a scramble of scraping
a newborn confusion
what is important? what is life?
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sterile
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lovely, isn’t it?
who knew one could watch breathing so close?
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cellar
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the hillside looked up in wonder
the trees raised their arms
“a meteor shower come to deface me” they cry
but sometimes our birthdays go by unnoticed
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kiloparsec shift
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you’re like the horizontal banding of adulthood
i still don’t know how to lift this bookshelf
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rip in the olive
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caterpillar
cocoon…
a cosmic monarch; i am time and bar lights
who are you?
“not what i was to you”
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silence nuke
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i meant to enjoy the rave
i meant to enjoy the clubbing
something is terribly right
that beat is not in sync with my thoughts
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contour
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if a windmill, or a ferris wheel, could paint
the future might be a kinder sea monste
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a lavender
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the snail looked into the eyes of life
for a moment it was a puddle
return to start
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a thousand blankets
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“where is my happiness?”
“where is my lover?”
“where is my chocolate?”
“where is my pinbox?”
hush, hush; don’t struggle
you’ll never have to leave again
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try to stay awake
try to stay awake
try to stay awake
try to stay awake
try to- etc.
OR
try to calm down
try to calm down
try to calm down
try to calm down
try to calm dow- *swallows*
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puppeteering weight loss
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even death has to reboot
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chewed ferrule
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because how else is life going to be stressed over?
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three years begin now
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the deer sees a future
he runs
now it’s behind him
what a waste
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dull, anticipation, blossom, then chemicals
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wheat; zeal
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it’s no more painful than life
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where do you go when she comes spinning?
what am i to do when andromeda rages?
whoever thought a star could be so insecure
sometimes a locked closet is its own self-destructing universe
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interferometry
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“is it a celestial wanderer’s message
is it a flangeringly mangled fate
or are you calling somebody else?”
i sob as i pass on the phone
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magellanic dust cloud
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another lullaby for somebody else
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go forth, my cosmic monarch
the breeze of time is sweeping you away
to be painted in neon lights
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nova (for susan)
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the beetle looked up into the sky
“here is your return; here is your demise”
but am i not your close friend?
no one is a friend to a closed door
no ant is a friend to a galactic detonation
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splinter
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in our search for immediate answers and faster results
we’ve reached too far for things to say at all
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sustain & bridge
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half the cereal was litter
fiesta!
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singed like a hair
welcome home, raging adoration
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sunlight mono
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if we concentrate on annihilation
who will there be to soak in the loss?
when will you peel back the curtains again?
where did we strangle that future reference?
why are you so red?
oh, so red
oh, so so red
eclipse
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n
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shatter ii
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and there goes your inspiration
it’s now a recycled idea that someone else will make bloom
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spine comet's love-note
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she says she loves me
but she collides so horribly
prepare for ending simulation
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memory maker
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who knew one could cry so soon
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vantage & mist
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ever swaying, ever clearing
but never finished in pulling out lungs
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jupiter rising
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father, where did you go for so long?
why is it so fitting to leave me alone?
what else is there for me to fall towards?
why are you raising your fist, father?
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her aphelion
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twelve stars aligned for a moment enough
for the olive tree to say its piece
and i ask,
“why should earth run herself through
if comets come to run through despite?”
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what more could you do?
you were destined to be secluded
but how blossomingly electrifying your wholesome beauty is!
you are your own ultra-violet portait
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window
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and all i can do is watch
malacia
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awakening
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can’t be blamed for wanting to sleep mankind away
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caldera impacts
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it’s no more painful than losing your mind
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jennifer
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we rest our heads on new loves:
the comforts of truly caring
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davina
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thirty minutes in and i haven’t slept a wink
can’t say it’s because of the neighbors using their fists
for one purpose or another
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liam
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a new day, a new mind, a new crime,
an old wound
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jasper
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and thirdly, the continuation of love is comparable to the strangling of death:
what reason do you have to challenge nature?
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tracey
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something has changed and i believe it is for good
but that is what bad hopes for
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Matthew Reeder Tacoma, Washington
drone ambient sound designer influenced by natural environments
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