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i wish i were a chemist, so that i could hypothesize & limit my attempts & my experiments in futility so that maybe, I could tell you that your mere presence was a catalyst to my volatile elements provoking reactions, left & right, endless explosions in my head & mostly, in my chest or that you tasted like a antidote to the mundane bringing me back from this quiet complacence i could drink your tonic, swallow your smoke, & devour your scraps like a starving bulimic or how your poison made me slip, drip like mercury, through your skillful & soft fingertips like sodium, this persistent salt that refuses to quit from my veins, a reserve remains after the detox or why i would oscilliate between the alkaline &   the acidic, never quite stabilizing at a safe degree if i had know all this, i would not have played alchemist, concocting a worthless elixir of life
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Mar 27, 2013
Mar 27, 2013 at 3:11 AM UTC
the alchemist
i wish i were a chemist, so that i could hypothesize & limit my attempts & my experiments in futility so that maybe, I could tell you that your mere presence was a catalyst to my volatile elements provoking reactions, left & right, endless explosions in my head & mostly, in my chest or that you tasted like a antidote to the mundane bringing me back from this quiet complacence i could drink your tonic, swallow your smoke, & devour your scraps like a starving bulimic or how your poison made me slip, drip like mercury, through your skillful & soft fingertips like sodium, this persistent salt that refuses to quit from my veins, a reserve remains after the detox or why i would oscilliate between the alkaline &   the acidic, never quite stabilizing at a safe degree if i had know all this, i would not have played alchemist, concocting a worthless elixir of life
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Mar 27, 2013
Mar 27, 2013 at 3:11 AM UTC
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