¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ i found her alone seated amid sumptuous shelter crafted of a most clement terracotta watching as those chaotic worldspun towers whirled around, piercing through vehement welkin then stretching down to ground level. they went weaving through the coils of an ethereal copper jungle and gifting her skin with bruises as they fled— each one, the sputum of a septic recess that was ceaseless in its diction of ruses in her head. some people called her the dark passenger, yet she talked herself idyllic using only stolen words. only twenty years old? what a mess! several life events had her under duress that augural September day. she was depressed yet she was pressing answers from the void beneath the drop— a top-to-bottom nonsensical blessing; funneling logic behind such curtains had her stressing out daily. she grew arrogant and twisted with the shifting of seasons; she grew humbled and wary for the worst of reasons. her life had become a shell in every sense, but it made sense in the utmost of naïve and senseless respects ... then I opened my mouth to speak again.