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Nina O'Donovan Jul 2016
The sun beats,
splits your skin.
Underneath
you’re heated till ductile;
you yield to the day.

The day is bloodhot.
A fish in a fist; you feel it
like a clot
in summer’s vein.
It drums the city dry.

You stay
in sungripped rooms
too small to compete.
Too soft with sweat,
you splinter and dash.

You happily waste the day.
Now nothing
has the energy
to raise itself
far off the ground.
K G Jun 2016
I'm inhaling
In a constant state of clinomania
I become a pendulum as she's away
Cigarettes when I couldn't sleep
And other times to estivate
Harrowing and haunting journey back
Through all these darkened waves
Your many colors could light up the room
I'll lay awake and I'll dream of yesterday
I'm exhaling
Anonymous hiding from the populous
Angered by incompetence
A life of acclivity, means a life of vacivity
The black monstrous are not unique
Every week, felt like driving
Into the trees
So long
To bare
To grasp
Thin air
SøułSurvivør Jun 2016
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too hot to read much
now is the time to put a
fan beside my bed and
learn a new word

ESTIVATE


SoulSurvivor
(C) 6/19/2016
Estivate: to go into a state of
inactivity or torpor
during very hot
or dry periods

There's no A/C where I live.
Time for a siesta!

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