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a fish in the lowest pond

dreams that only go on

With our sleep

in too deep

-s’s

I say what I say

I like whatever I see you say, whatever has been coming out still

still I paid in full

debt, death, or rent annulled

I can bring down anything, you don't concern me

you don't concern me

don’t hand me my deeds

I lean in where I see you sway

whatever it is, I got to pave

many tunnels many hours

feels so sleepy, feels quite sour

I'll hand what you got in, at the

end

-s's.

disillusioned by folk

belittled by war

where it comes behind

it will surely go

-s’s.

even in the ringing of bells

there's a sound like nothing else

a heart that singing underground

swims alongside where you roam

and I know what I don't

and I don't what I won't

and its hard to stay afloat

Alone here

-s’s.

but why

I swim close to electric currents and blue fire shorelines

And why do the girls get close to outer edge of their textiles

and take out tapestries in a rush to see them torn apart

from all that's good and plenty?

I stay close to eclectic women and new diamond landmines

but why?

It's for nothing.

-s's.

since what went by was a lonely thing

and it never occurred to anybody

of what it could be and how it would leap

over there. over your head and into nothing

the abyss? is that nothing?

the cliffs? the subtle seas,

the long hard work days, the days when the sky is heavier

and it comes down to crush the rocks

the mountains too

I watch as they'd compress, it'd never occurred to anybody else

-s's.

I’ll never have time to kill. I never wanted to

but you must do

i guess i should stay and never come out

and wait for the gold to explode

because time is winding in now

the fish hooks look in tides for something

i wish i was just finely thinned out

into nothing

-s's.

envelopes

Too many envelopes and people living in secret rooms

I can’t cope—keeping them locked safe in a dark movie like I had hoped

but nothing that’s sealed is worthwhile

say it when you find out and watch while it falls down

-s’s.

i have nothing to talk about

Nothing to say’s so important that it’ll keep the world running

like an HVAC whirring and compressing

Like motors like steel like the factory of fame and dreams

on planet Mercury

in the clouds

through this message I hope that the show keeps on going

help me up the stairs, but

there’s no sky that’s worth living in

-s’s.

something crawls out of landfill

something light and surprising

as I recall secret antics

I do to keep on watching

-s’s.

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Don't Be Damned

don't be damned

dry your life of an eye

with its turquoise shoreline

A small world in envelope

with enamored stars and newfound hope

don't be damned,

there is nothing else you need to know

-s's.

I would especially like to apologize

to you, for I

was skipping rocks

over the pool

of which you cried

-s's.

ghost of mist and pieces and trees

falling delightfully like fading spring

ghost of loss, of thought, of everything

-s’s.

dysfunction ; You can drive and talk some more,

But you talk about the things that dont work anymore you know everything you’re well-assured but you dream of things in their final course And nobody’s going to let you know

-s’s

all that we think is an engine

a part of a time machine

Did this time it belong to me?

serene, unique,

I only hope

the way that I hope

For my defeat

-s’s.

I am myself as one says I am,

Suggesting my home of a soul stay the way

I have been all morning sitting sitting sitting boring

-s’s.

Remember me I used to Hate you Remember me I used to Play along to Stupid scripts You write to Kill me off They came true

-s’s.

I don't know why, but

at least it comes in time

the bittersweet feeling of your feet walking away at dawn

picked it as a muse,

When you used to talk about art

And what it made you want to do

-s’s.

Listen to my song It plays a violin And it tries to take you away from me Darker than the storm I once let in It plays in my mind softly

-s’s.

as I’ve seen you last

driving into the milky way

with high hopes of calmer place

As I’ve seen you last

staring down the world into oblivion

city inside a city

eyes within eyes

dream of a dream

-s’s.

pre-cognitive poetry

takes place without me knowing

and as soon as any old day goes by

I sit beside a pond

inside my head psychic grip then

releases me back into the world again

-s’s.

I'm tired of living this through time and time again Seeing you feels Like being dead promise I will stop or promise I won't whatever the choice you don't have to know -s's.

Winding Staircase

eyes are getting to you,

you tell yourself that

it gets too lonely and you

don't know who to ask

all by yourself,

only looking down at this

winding staircase

walking up the grandeur of each day

-s’s.

Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil. But it seems to me that whatever else you do, it’s worth tending to paradise, however you define it and wherever it arises.

— Olivia Laing, from Funny Weather

Freedom to walk around and watch you look

So I take my mind off of something as blue

When the day crept on me weakly

And time was my worst enemy

 You’d walk around the world

wherever you were,

unpredictably

-s's.

I have a lot of ingenuity

I have a lot of questions between alternating waves of seawater and poison

I have become swept up under a darling cove

And darkness awoke, something I know

-s’s.

I set my eyes forward, still

and pray

I sit alone, watch the streetlights decay

now my room is frozen black

Distant whistles of the train

I’m amused by hypothetical pain

I sit here and think of what I would say

I set my eyes on the wall

and pray

-s’s.

what’s meant for me will come out of you

what’s been ignored is the bitter truth

what’s the deal with my indifference?

I should decorate this innocence

with roses

-s’s.