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I'm a Man of Many Thinks

The brain is a field of minds,

but only one knows how to talk.

(Until you smoke DMT)

Then

You realise that the ability to point at things

with your tiny mouth-sounds

is overrated.

 

The field of minds knows more

than me. Sees more and feels

more than me.

I know eleven colours,

maybe twelve if I try.

I can hear thirteen notes

(including B double-flat)

And I feel all sorts of tingling

in my skin and blood and belly.

 

What do they see?

What do they feel?

What do they know?

These extra minds...

 

I bet they're just screaming at me.

Every trip and tumble and

**** up

that I make,

I bet they know

A way out

of

that mess.

But they don't talk.

They just watch.

"How'd we end up tied to this

*******

Omniscient minds. Wasted.

Frustrated. Enlightened.

"Doesn't this ****** know

how easy it is to live?"

 

When your mind doesn't talk.

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ryan-pemberton
Australian
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Nov 21, 2014
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