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The ache of quiet dysphoria.
2023.
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And we're not going anywhere.
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unspoken pretense veiled intent with disposition in conflict and so i became your worthless animal -jc
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i fled into that deep black begging to be lost banishing the ghosts with each stride dawn nipping at my heels like a feral dog -jc
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Fourteen. Fourteen times. Again and again. Rotation. Replication. Fourteen times.
In just a few short weeks I will be co-publishing a book, 'Jackal & Horse'.
See you on the other side.
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sole surviving rook staring down the barrel of a queen threatening to break in like the roar of a winter storm the seething gray intent on killing the calm painting the walls with static as it goes and unpromising the hard-fought serenity of warmth leaving me bereft of the elysisms that were fostered in fallow soil like gnarled roots addled and weary unable to let go of that awful open door
hello again, it's been a while your mouth is moving who are you again? are you talking i can't hear hello again, it's been a while we exchange a glance who are you again? no sound is coming out hello again, it's been a while i'm sorry, i don't understand who are you again? you flash me a smile hello again, it's been a while and turn to leave who are you again?
(i am) spinning spiraling out (i am) writhing inside (i am) chocking heaving, retching lost in this haze
whiteout its titanous grip weaving out the colors within what remains of this hollow nothing
burden of giant's making betrayed by their lasting impression