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Accumulation
Information is weight that holds
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down and holds back like a jungle
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like so many vines and chutes
2m
Feb 6, 2022
Ain't It A Shame
Ain't it a shame
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that we—
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Nature's Human—
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can't bring ourselves
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to care.
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Can't bring ourse
1m
Feb 18, 2021
Anarchy
The greatest mastery of self
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is to do nothing.
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We are doers
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programmed to do,
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to solve, to b
1m
Jun 16, 2021
Broken Home
I sunk my fingers down
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into the loam of an ancient
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buffalo wallow and the
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land that had quietl
1m
Dec 8, 2020
Caged
The illusion of
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option,
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of freedom,
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of choice—
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the patronizing
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call of the
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jailer—
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his
1m
May 16, 2020
Ceremony With The Dead
Ghosts dance around me
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and I am stepping on their toes
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they curse me as I walk backwards
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traci
1m
Aug 30, 2023
Comfort
Comfort's embrace is
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false and choking.
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The masses gag in
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their sleep, subdued
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by its silken
1m
Jan 23, 2022
Confines
Pressures,
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forces,
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twisting levers—
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gears ratcheting down
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little by
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relentless
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little /
1m
May 10, 2020
Dead Flowers
The day he handed the flowers to her
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she was looking ahead
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instead of at him.
1m
Apr 3, 2021
Disbelief
The act of not believing;
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not believing in one’s actions,
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or participation,
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in a world that pr
1m
Aug 11, 2020
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