~For Pradip~* Pradip: who yet walks among we useless
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this layabout in my drafts, driftwood in a sea of ******* poems in a circumscribed hell for who knows for how long,
all that is certain is that summer ending dreading, is in full force now marching forward, with the end of days
of body chilling whipped winds, cold so paining no one be bothering to breathe out white steamy curses and life is a half a calendar league too far to be believed
I mate much coffee imbibed, the cheeks wet incessant, no error, the death thots~ throes come in waves persistent, like the monsoons we’ve survived,
it’s easier to recall army of losses than the few teaspoons victories, who cares, they plentiful companions, reliable, and we share them with cups of black tea, salted by our tiny tears that this too shall past
for:*
it’s the seasonality of our lives, and these are the days of unending unendurable grayscale