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You don’t have a license barely a permit You have a tractor getting harder to push Up the freeway your friend who’s singing slightly Behind lyrics clearly they don’t know thank god for The Penske truck is a sight for sore ears Loud garish yellow noise is cramming All fourteen things Happening against my eyelids as information Floods through toddler hands Holding the motor dripping oil stains I’m looking down at my feet are still The same size of change Traffic creates only letting My brows think for my bones then brain to The rest of my face I use to smell For the gingerbread house because I can’t look At my journey drip away back down again In sync with tears or sweat or saliva just something Clear and complete ly me If someone was here and saw how much I was Not doing things easily in leak of nothing Would change but complete difference Like once when I dreamt I was important only to come back to Right down a good metaphor Is a room full of silent horses next door still here Is traffic ironic it’d be faster to crawl My way in Secure means I explain jokes laugh at my self I don’t find Anything interesting or true ly funny Except surprise How time hides uncomfort in lack of Meaning when my heart feels the most shame and holds nothing but Just my mind is alive and I feel Like I am Which is just My teeth and not my hair because I’m not Smiling out of a person Whose not a woman or a man even less so what’s left Over from right I need to check with my fingers on both hands off the wheel Two sets of answers brakes the facade of trusting me with the future I watch the time on my left wrist then ask out loud To make sure it’s right every time too People who look up only to sleep and focus on eyelid thoughts And have forgotten how to Change when Time is past
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Apr 2
Apr 2, 2026 at 4:44 AM UTC
Ive memorized centuries of histories of places and people I dont know how the cut on my face got there
You don’t have a license barely a permit You have a tractor getting harder to push Up the freeway your friend who’s singing slightly Behind lyrics clearly they don’t know thank god for The Penske truck is a sight for sore ears Loud garish yellow noise is cramming All fourteen things Happening against my eyelids as information Floods through toddler hands Holding the motor dripping oil stains I’m looking down at my feet are still The same size of change Traffic creates only letting My brows think for my bones then brain to The rest of my face I use to smell For the gingerbread house because I can’t look At my journey drip away back down again In sync with tears or sweat or saliva just something Clear and complete ly me If someone was here and saw how much I was Not doing things easily in leak of nothing Would change but complete difference Like once when I dreamt I was important only to come back to Right down a good metaphor Is a room full of silent horses next door still here Is traffic ironic it’d be faster to crawl My way in Secure means I explain jokes laugh at my self I don’t find Anything interesting or true ly funny Except surprise How time hides uncomfort in lack of Meaning when my heart feels the most shame and holds nothing but Just my mind is alive and I feel Like I am Which is just My teeth and not my hair because I’m not Smiling out of a person Whose not a woman or a man even less so what’s left Over from right I need to check with my fingers on both hands off the wheel Two sets of answers brakes the facade of trusting me with the future I watch the time on my left wrist then ask out loud To make sure it’s right every time too People who look up only to sleep and focus on eyelid thoughts And have forgotten how to Change when Time is past
I Am proud of this, changed the format from the original, but i love convolution and unknowing
KSL333
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Apr 2
Apr 2, 2026 at 4:44 AM UTC
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