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Quietly, I

quietly, quietly sat a lie
arms outstretched
palms staked to the fierce eye
observing within
as, first, flesh mottles
closer still to see without
while blister
vermilion doubts
one apiece of each
seized mortal engine
dripped of framed wax
placed in a filleted whole
gas pored
for a hungry earth
this is all I wish today
let each word die in a dusty throat
a melt th...

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entropyworthSurrenderescape

Nada

nobody nor nothing is real

 

absolute, yes,

 

for you are never truly gone

just no longer assembled

in the correct order of atoms

to make any further sense of

your ordeals

 

so they can’t be real

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