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my shoes are caked with brown mud and my arms have new burns. getting high alone in the woods is fine until the paranoia sets is and the trees i love on lsd become my hated enemies. i find a book of matches on the ground, twenty minutes after my lighter died. they are wet and do not light. the cigarette between my lips dangles there, before falling into the mud i trudge through. i use my own name in vain and try to pretend that losing my lucky isn’t unlucky.
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Jan 6, 2018
Jan 6, 2018 at 10:37 PM UTC
To Walk Through Mud
my shoes are caked with brown mud and my arms have new burns. getting high alone in the woods is fine until the paranoia sets is and the trees i love on lsd become my hated enemies. i find a book of matches on the ground, twenty minutes after my lighter died. they are wet and do not light. the cigarette between my lips dangles there, before falling into the mud i trudge through. i use my own name in vain and try to pretend that losing my lucky isn’t unlucky.
the title was given to me as a prompt by a friend
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20/Non-binary/Maryland
Jan 6, 2018
Jan 6, 2018 at 10:37 PM UTC
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