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The Old Adages

by @cubicle-kryptonite

Chaos over sleep. You supply the torches, I'll supply the mob. This bed's too big for the one of us. The maggots already ate through the moose, leaving two yellowed-white anchors made of bone to sink into the floor. Bologna; The meat that lies straight to your face. The news is getting olds. Analyzing bags and trashes. Paralyzing eyelashes snap shut, trapping the fly. Thus, the death of an ego was born. Reading is kind of like smoking except you don't burn the paper. The quickest way to burn a bridge is to kiss it. Don't be a stranger now. I'm strange enough for the both of us. The ins and outs of the whens and wheres I do and do not belong. That bar fight with the bathroom door really did a doozy on my eyebrow. You know I will hunt whatever, you pra(e)y. Blessed by lowercase god and misspelled Amerika('Merica). Same message, different bottle. My dreams are too loud before I fall asleep. The first possibility that you jump to write off has the highest probability of containing the things that will set you right off. My teeth may not have any layers of skin left to ride by. From poverty to profanity; proverbs to insanity. A serpent a day keeps the apples away. Growing weary of the definitive abstracts, I curl up somewhat uncomfortably numb in the cracks of the curbs and sidewalks... And with that the last thought of the night twisted into the air and joined with the wisps of smoke pouring from the final cigarette. The odyssey in mind sends our hero sailing from the shores of "I know how to do it all" into the vast and turbulent waves of "I do it all." The bird who clipped its own wings. The Jack of All Trades, the Queen of No Hearts, the King of Nothing, the Ace of Idle. Faceless cards. Just a chess piece on a checker board. Maybe there's less to figure out than there is to understand. Always on the brink of making things right. Don't let it slink away in the middle of the night. I had an uncomfortably close call with life. What some would call a near-life experience. I swear I was inches away from living...
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Oct 5, 2015
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Insomniac dreams

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