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and I did, I missed every opportunity to explain how making you win was my greatest loss impossible beyond the void the pale rider the golden hour tint night cap thirst of the sun we rode on the hope, but paled in comparison to the cost what it would take to unknot the debt the sheer face of its cliff o'er the drink of my shame the canon of our war effort what it took convincing you all how the loss was not helping me win you loved winning without me and so, was our blood from wounds viper-deep lacerations of the ropes clung to for years screaming for salvation intestines too slack for healthy grips of sanity, wound around wounds wrapped in rapture zany, I remember, the yells like children, screaming ****** ****** pushing each other on swings they were never meant to have so much fun like, ******* my wives ****** was too much ****** fun wasn't it what a win what an epic the mythology how, could one enjoy such agony in the midst of pleasure's ****** how soft women are how the chainsaw blade is not meant for such flesh how the tongue is not by the throat, meant for such holler such balloo high notes, on yonder mercy, how the flesh, should ne'er know the cut of tools so ready for imaginations so cruel to touch, in broad daylight or cool, summer night the groan of understanding undeserving how the criminal, gloats, until the prison cell gleams with its pearl so fat so far from freedom, the clam has its keep, its treasure the bars, of steel and stone steal the strength, of every debauchery convince the thief the murderer the liar that that last one that that one before that that that that that first mayhaps that that first, maybe that one firstly before considering the good the thrill of the crime next time maybe back allll that way back to that first one maybe it was not worth the gander the thrill that first one how the cold steel wounds that confidence how, the stone, drinks the heat of the murderer's blood down to a smooth, fitful chill a circumspect, chilling pensieve gait down the memory's grasp of every blood curdling smile not so toothy, in the embrace of Sheol, the cement wrought with the deeds of one's own decaying lustful joy in the demise of the joys of innocence and the innocent how wardens, true wardens, enjoy seeing the heat of a murderer so hot in watching the life of a woman leave her eyes, cool, in him, as if that life were his meal and all her potentials all that could have spelled her heavens the will of her to toil for God produce the crop of all joys to come children laugh, not scream icecream, not blood curdling let the prison walls eat the thieves' joys let them joys perish... ... let me win...
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Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM UTC
Make It About Your Losses, Not Our Victories In Loss...
and I did, I missed every opportunity to explain how making you win was my greatest loss impossible beyond the void the pale rider the golden hour tint night cap thirst of the sun we rode on the hope, but paled in comparison to the cost what it would take to unknot the debt the sheer face of its cliff o'er the drink of my shame the canon of our war effort what it took convincing you all how the loss was not helping me win you loved winning without me and so, was our blood from wounds viper-deep lacerations of the ropes clung to for years screaming for salvation intestines too slack for healthy grips of sanity, wound around wounds wrapped in rapture zany, I remember, the yells like children, screaming ****** ****** pushing each other on swings they were never meant to have so much fun like, ******* my wives ****** was too much ****** fun wasn't it what a win what an epic the mythology how, could one enjoy such agony in the midst of pleasure's ****** how soft women are how the chainsaw blade is not meant for such flesh how the tongue is not by the throat, meant for such holler such balloo high notes, on yonder mercy, how the flesh, should ne'er know the cut of tools so ready for imaginations so cruel to touch, in broad daylight or cool, summer night the groan of understanding undeserving how the criminal, gloats, until the prison cell gleams with its pearl so fat so far from freedom, the clam has its keep, its treasure the bars, of steel and stone steal the strength, of every debauchery convince the thief the murderer the liar that that last one that that one before that that that that that first mayhaps that that first, maybe that one firstly before considering the good the thrill of the crime next time maybe back allll that way back to that first one maybe it was not worth the gander the thrill that first one how the cold steel wounds that confidence how, the stone, drinks the heat of the murderer's blood down to a smooth, fitful chill a circumspect, chilling pensieve gait down the memory's grasp of every blood curdling smile not so toothy, in the embrace of Sheol, the cement wrought with the deeds of one's own decaying lustful joy in the demise of the joys of innocence and the innocent how wardens, true wardens, enjoy seeing the heat of a murderer so hot in watching the life of a woman leave her eyes, cool, in him, as if that life were his meal and all her potentials all that could have spelled her heavens the will of her to toil for God produce the crop of all joys to come children laugh, not scream icecream, not blood curdling let the prison walls eat the thieves' joys let them joys perish... ... let me win...
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Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM UTC
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