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grow thicker skin like us they say also... calm down snap out of it and let it go advice from friends who seem to think I'm someone else they love him this someone else they've painted this potential me created in their image while the flesh me fails to explain the experience of this pulsing straightjacketed brain the drop of errant blood that pollutes the rest what it's like treading water with concrete shoes and how I tiptoe like a cat burglar around double helix spiral staircases trying to avoid the mischievous child who hides in dark corners lobbing sticks of dynamite in my path I explain all this but they are not appeased they trumpet laughter through their scaly trunks I turn and walk out the door into my daily hailstorm unprotected
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Sep 1, 2018
Sep 1, 2018 at 12:52 PM UTC
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grow thicker skin like us they say also... calm down snap out of it and let it go advice from friends who seem to think I'm someone else they love him this someone else they've painted this potential me created in their image while the flesh me fails to explain the experience of this pulsing straightjacketed brain the drop of errant blood that pollutes the rest what it's like treading water with concrete shoes and how I tiptoe like a cat burglar around double helix spiral staircases trying to avoid the mischievous child who hides in dark corners lobbing sticks of dynamite in my path I explain all this but they are not appeased they trumpet laughter through their scaly trunks I turn and walk out the door into my daily hailstorm unprotected
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BRihlmann
44/M/Nevada
Sep 1, 2018
Sep 1, 2018 at 12:52 PM UTC
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