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The sound of the tentacles Wrapped tight around my head Fails to drown out the drone Of the future, dead Elating the meantime The question ignored again Does anyone know where They really begin? An answer won't conjure itself A seed can't remember its fall Every labyrinth distraction A lost cause. Hands that quiver and shake Quickly in the dark Grasping for poison Among the shadows of the stars Maybe the trick lies in Lying to yourself Like a snake who bites onto his tail Swallowing all of its selves Forming a circle from a line Endlessly eating in ignorance Till there's nothing left at all No instincts to fail The outside observer Never makes the distinction Between circles and lines They grin and think "At least it's not my life I'll be just fine." And on trudges the line On goes the time.
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Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 7:01 PM UTC
Strangled
The sound of the tentacles Wrapped tight around my head Fails to drown out the drone Of the future, dead Elating the meantime The question ignored again Does anyone know where They really begin? An answer won't conjure itself A seed can't remember its fall Every labyrinth distraction A lost cause. Hands that quiver and shake Quickly in the dark Grasping for poison Among the shadows of the stars Maybe the trick lies in Lying to yourself Like a snake who bites onto his tail Swallowing all of its selves Forming a circle from a line Endlessly eating in ignorance Till there's nothing left at all No instincts to fail The outside observer Never makes the distinction Between circles and lines They grin and think "At least it's not my life I'll be just fine." And on trudges the line On goes the time.
Written July 6th
flyonthewall
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Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 7:01 PM UTC
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