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The spirit of the moment is volcanic lava that’s needy speedy for cooling, with all deliberate speed, for it enflames, eviscerating, priority over any human calling though true I am only human too, liken to you, but the spirit, by its name, decidedly not, when pervades/invades, my soul no longer mine to keep but a vassal~ vessel moved by forces unseen, but not disbelieved when the moment is only near~nigh~now, the spirit visits like a widow, but! a silent uninvited guest, I see to the forecast, see no drought, despite record heat, and the pitch of fever repeats only * complete! complete! complete!* and there is no dispute, who is tool who is master, the word urgent unneeded, contra~claims going away, unheeded for I am transfused to the moment, diktat of the spirit dictates and I to be his nothing-but-scribe, a single purpose unconsoled, repleting, now! now! now!
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May 18
May 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM UTC
The streaming spirit of the moment
The spirit of the moment is volcanic lava that’s needy speedy for cooling, with all deliberate speed, for it enflames, eviscerating, priority over any human calling though true I am only human too, liken to you, but the spirit, by its name, decidedly not, when pervades/invades, my soul no longer mine to keep but a vassal~ vessel moved by forces unseen, but not disbelieved when the moment is only near~nigh~now, the spirit visits like a widow, but! a silent uninvited guest, I see to the forecast, see no drought, despite record heat, and the pitch of fever repeats only * complete! complete! complete!* and there is no dispute, who is tool who is master, the word urgent unneeded, contra~claims going away, unheeded for I am transfused to the moment, diktat of the spirit dictates and I to be his nothing-but-scribe, a single purpose unconsoled, repleting, now! now! now!
the title came to me in the weary afore the eyes closed, and awoke 5 hours later, to find a newborn completed while I was asleeping thus the “moment complete” was completed, the spirit gone to other parties unknown!
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99/M/NYC/Lippstadt/Kraków
May 18
May 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM UTC
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