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No Purchase

Perpetually exhausted in some way
Get physical rest, become mentally fatigued
Exuberance unwasted, untold
Misery sworn and alchemized […]

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Other Things

And what does it matter,
Whether now starts now, or in a few minutes?
What does it do to the fabric of time?
What effect does a gravitational sphere […]

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Shock

“I’ve been on a few dates,”
Is not something I could say

“I’ve been talking to a few different people,”
Is not something I could say […]

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Gravity Subsiding

Lets go with a smile
Pulled apart willingly
Grows, abounds, submits, forfeits
Monitors and coaxes
To the brightness, to the shore […]

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Visions

Empty faces fill the artwork
As it’s tortured on the wall
And the subway cars chug along
Remembering grandfather steam engines […]

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Augur

Can you hear the ode
The clouds have spoke?
As the feathered brittle bristles
Erupt in a unified voice [...]

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