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The pendulum, the yo-yo, the hypnotist, the hatchlings.

You hanged yourself from a palm

on a desert island.

Starved for weeks.

Catching flies in the cave that hung open in your mouth.

Swaying on the wind until it was worn too thin and died.

And you see a series of the most beautiful sunrises.

Which you paint in my sleep every night after you've crept through my skull and come visit me.

Telling me all that you know of the habits of flies

While the new ones

Those kids

Dance around my breathing nose

To settle and sleep on my gums.-

All waiting to hatch to get a glimpse of that sunrise

Of which their parents dreamt.

A timeless chant

The only thing that god can be called

And the skin fell off of the shell of their light to make naked a thing that can not be named.

Cracking and peeling back their eyes to make way for the divine to come pouring out

Drowning a bloated belly thirst

Light explodes from every inch of the body-

It is the building of Ash,

The ripening of the past.

Until all that is left is he lthe two pupils falling

Like flies giving up on their lives

Into a pool of pure psychedelia

Dropping as a pearl tastes in the ignorant mouth of a thousand wanting oysters swallowing down the ****** of said god.

Who chokes on its own divine light

That it can finally die

Away from the madness of its mind

 

-overandover

andoveragain.

 

And our island

Is a venus fly trap

Devouring its neighboring flowers

Until there's no distinction between

The sweetness of rotting

And the living which is a thing we call ours.

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May 15, 2017
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