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I am with you here in this place scanning with cool and radiant eyes Causing silver haired women to pantomime The Thing Thats Wrong With Us: their heads shake and their thumbs waggle in the air like worms. Our thumbs irk them, patience wearing thin as their lips. They are so sad for us, for our murderous stupidity. They know what is wrong: because our empty carcasses litter their living rooms the busses they ride the classes they teach slumped in the seats where we left them. Heidegger said that attention creates access to the world, And we've crept away to the edge dangling our attentions over the inviting precipice like the sorcerer's apprentice unsure of how it all takes place but certain of it’s awesome power. The well overflows and we are swept away as the women look on
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 4:22 AM UTC
Thumbs
I am with you here in this place scanning with cool and radiant eyes Causing silver haired women to pantomime The Thing Thats Wrong With Us: their heads shake and their thumbs waggle in the air like worms. Our thumbs irk them, patience wearing thin as their lips. They are so sad for us, for our murderous stupidity. They know what is wrong: because our empty carcasses litter their living rooms the busses they ride the classes they teach slumped in the seats where we left them. Heidegger said that attention creates access to the world, And we've crept away to the edge dangling our attentions over the inviting precipice like the sorcerer's apprentice unsure of how it all takes place but certain of it’s awesome power. The well overflows and we are swept away as the women look on
laura-jane
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 4:22 AM UTC
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