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My Throat is Dry

Poem, I think,

I made

It, I,

 

I made it!

 

You said

That was it.

 

You said

That would be it.

 

Hey!

 

Hey!

 

Hey! Where are you going around that corner with your silver studs and brown taps and absentee ballots and twist tie bracelets and police misfortunes and twister twisters and that half-sister your grandpa could only whisper through whiskey-truth-breath-starlight as we laugh through the magnetic starlight deep-cone in multi-colored snow cones obsessed with how our ankles look in filters not our own, and, disconnected, possibilities, possibilities up there -

 

And then

We have nothing to connect to

 

And then

We have nothing to believe in

 

And then

We have nothing but a reaction

Of a reaction

Of a

Reaction

 

Based on based

 

Chaos

 

Of an upside-down centrism

 

To only

 

keep the balance.

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