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she tied threads around her fingers,
hoping to remember.
she cut her fingers off,
hoping to forget.
Literature
In the Syllable
...then there is a way in diswaiting.
Dust some yellow sand covers,
here uncover bare bedding.
...suffusing red planes, blushed dunes,
under incidentally quilted blanket
wet as arid curves, as sounds.
...in a persistent pavement,
in a solemn unsuited promise,
some written words erase
some letters drip and soak
unto a perfuse miracle,
a dislocated split,
a letting go of...
Literature
backwards
i lived backwards today
i pictured my house turned inside out so that all the curtains shielded the sun from me,
and the windows were no longer behind bars. they opened and closed like blinking eyes.
nobody spoke. not even spoken to. i knew all the answers but my mouth caved in on itself.
you were no longer behind every thought; you drifted in and out like a ghost but didn't disturb me.
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interstitial.shuffling
interstitial
shuffling,
between bass music
and crazy looking floors
caught stuck dancing,
between the cocaine beat
and the existential shadow.
blinking blankly between,
trapped, I mean,
between the image and the afterburn,
incessant ringing of the slot machines,
celebrate everything
carpet
strategically designed
to ensnare me
in kaleidoscopic fences
cafe attendant
bizarrely happy to see me
escalators,
are fun-house mirrors
to catch the light of
dim fluorescents
please kill me
if I ever un-ironically use that shade of mauve
that painting in the corner,
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sad and beautiful, well written in so few words.