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Cigarettes

Anti-smoking ads give me that craving For a lit cigarette slowly burning Killing me, my sanity it’s saving When I inhale the darkness stops churning   Poison less toxic than my memories Black lungs better than cancer in my mind … Continue reading

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Monsters

We’re born into a wildfire of sensation. Suddenly it’s bright and cold and for the first time you’re exposed. Dropped in a foreign word of twisting sights and nauseating sounds, surrounded by, which might as well be and still be, … Continue reading

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A Letter

Dear~ In reply to the ails of your mind: I understand why you have no motivation, I do. It’s because the West has grown soft with age and raised a generation of sheep. Worse than that: cattle too fattened and … Continue reading

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The Iron Astrolabe

  the iron astrolabe: a cage of iron laws cold metallic orbits inhabited by emblazoned beasts set in motion above us, below us, within us casting shadows and illusions around us we toil, burn, blister, sweat, and bleed we shit, … Continue reading

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