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english class ramblings 1

Something that stopped me in my tracks

was the weight of the air around me.

we're all sitting in traintracks on a baseball field

and we dont see the cars driving past

but we can **** well feel them

the balloon of pressure

air sprinting away from the grill of a two-ton hunk of metal

glass

rubber

knocks you back just in time to get hit by the train you never saw coming.

jump off the tracks and dive into my opened chest

the sea is swelling and it will swallow you whole

You're just standin there.

You look stupid.

Wonderin' why..

Why, man?

be the tide and raise these storm waters until they crash your levies

leveling your time-built empire

your stockades made of billiard *****

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christopher-ranieri
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Feb 24, 2014
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