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Birthday Indulgence

I am dead.

Cloven flesh, spirit

hiding shadows, some place, no place, sow

below the flow of thought -

amiable calamity on the part of the

lethargic.

That sense faded west

tasting living sweat and I

can’t even feel the uncaring

caress of ill ideals seeping through

green-blue, all eyes gray through prismatic

roots.

Wheels touch paper wedges,

circlets adorning colored names to

beats and lengths of waves, crystalline

wrists intact but

can’t my legs catch the

drift?

The day fades salty

across my brow, spit up

gentrified goodbyes dancing the fine line

catching boldly to dusk,

webs of light casting Terra’s abortions into

night.

I feel adrift atop

bending winds soaring,

grasping at the sky;

I’m laughing crawling forward, snatching

feelings named in my self-absorbed

ways.

Oh! how it bursts forth!

Explosions off in the distance

tuning eyes to white and back again,

heaving ribs spitting venom,

ideas ***** abominations, I feel at home at

last.

I cry at simplicities

feet, todays imagined forays into

Death again foiled by a common

sense which refuses neglect, wresting

forever rest from out my chest, a wasted

breath.

And what to do with

indulgent Death? What of

her bright eyes catching mine,

shaken thoughts grow cold

inside, so cold she warms my flesh for

tomorrows.

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