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Nov 2016
The crownless head is unbearably light,
while the body floats off into the night,
with limbs popping like balloons against a jagged sky.

Fools pressed and folded inside paper walls.
The echo of one passionate wail can tear this whole thing apart,
but to think twice would be to think for far too long.

The trick is to convince yourself that you're not only dreaming.
That this scene features more than just one meaning:
To wake up screaming in a silent movie.
To spew vibrant ***** all over these monochrome paintings.

(To dance in a bathroom while the discharge of bowels are drowning down the bowl.)

To crease rays until your shadowed mainstay bathes in fire -
stealing meaning from featureless things to replace the ones you've been leaking your whole life.
This is not a rewrite, but a feathered attempt to break a lightless moon's fetters.
Our bodies bend beneath tempting weight for the sake of feeling better.
Our minds aren't empty but filled with smoke;
our tongues are poisoned arrows whose spit holds the antidote.
Straining against the grip of heavy soil,
the flesh tries in vain to convince the bones that our health is not a joke.
JDK
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JDK  35/M/Japan
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