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Zona Rossa

Loneliness

Is a price I pay

For my mastery of cleverness

And wit

That has cost me all my lovers

 

Sleep

Is a reset that resets my Jupiter

But never my Moon.

I wake up ever day feeling tired

And go to sleep awake

 

Sometimes I think

About the backwardness of my life, that

To give birth first in loneliness

Might be better than dying in love

 

This c...

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32 Days of Pain

 

It’s day 54. 

We’re running behind schedule in this process of healing.

 

 

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32 Days of Pain

I gave birth to a bruise today.

 

It's all my life’s pains combined in one big baby of pain.

I will nurture it and cherish it

As it sucks the life out of me

Before fading away ungratefully.

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Alzheimer’s

I went to an art gallery with my grandmother the other day

Kept circling the same room for hours 

 

She had a different opinion every time

about those 12 paintings we kept looking at

 

Afterwards we went back home

I made some coffee

And introduced myself to her for the very last time

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32 Days of Pain

the clouds are in a hurry

raindrops are shooting down

waves rush in their rise

flowers bloom within seconds

 

everything is sped up in the eye of my mind

and gets faster as days go by

and I spin

faster and faster in the shell of my life

waiting for the day it breaks and I can 

finally be released from this endless chaos

and then

 

you.

 

and it slows do...

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