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Screen break

It must be time to get up

Any excuse to fill my cup

To get out of this chair

To take in some different air

 

The mechanisms are tense

Cornea, Iris and the lens

Focused and sharp

Like a razor to a harp

 

Capturing images, light and perusing

Peering across a radient sunset, percieving or sewing

Better to be absent minded staring into distance

Than screens burni...

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I don't wanna watch that
because it already happened,
and happens inside me when I do.
Our culture is enamored with
the psychology of observing life
rather than living it.

Why do we love to watch evil?
Why do we love bloodshed and pain?

We think,
as long as it's happening to someone else;
as long as we're not the one--
if we just watch and feel,
what we witness isn't real,
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