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Flashing numbers; this isn't a binary sequence but the universe has got me wondering. 01001011010101011 combinations of 2 create infinitesimally complicated creatures, craters, croutons, castrations, cancers, colons, concretes, convulsions, corn-cobs. 'Where is my mind' by the Pixies; wish I'd never heard it before. No simile metaphor for what's next, swooping ultraviolent. Almost like skin being ripped off so I'm nothing but bone and muscle. 'With your feet in the air and your head on the ground,' the dam snaps and floods my Amsterdam cheeks like New Orleans; scrambling for roof I drown. Scrambling for roof I drown. 'Try to trick and spin it, yeah,' polka-dots and floaters; bacteria in my eye dives into the ocean and makes me wonder which flew bottom and rounded-dust to eat ***** on sea-floor. 'Your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself,' mashing cellphone numbers now; mashing cellphone needed now dad pick up please pick up worlds end pick up mom pick up I need to know I'm real I need to know there's truth, 'where is my mind? Where is my mind? Whee erre is my mind?' the world fades into itself and what crosses mind is death but no, why? No, need. Dad picks up to my heaving sobs. Rational, collected. Collect call. World freezes.
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Jan 16, 2013
Jan 16, 2013 at 9:13 PM UTC
an ode to the panic attack.
Flashing numbers; this isn't a binary sequence but the universe has got me wondering. 01001011010101011 combinations of 2 create infinitesimally complicated creatures, craters, croutons, castrations, cancers, colons, concretes, convulsions, corn-cobs. 'Where is my mind' by the Pixies; wish I'd never heard it before. No simile metaphor for what's next, swooping ultraviolent. Almost like skin being ripped off so I'm nothing but bone and muscle. 'With your feet in the air and your head on the ground,' the dam snaps and floods my Amsterdam cheeks like New Orleans; scrambling for roof I drown. Scrambling for roof I drown. 'Try to trick and spin it, yeah,' polka-dots and floaters; bacteria in my eye dives into the ocean and makes me wonder which flew bottom and rounded-dust to eat ***** on sea-floor. 'Your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself,' mashing cellphone numbers now; mashing cellphone needed now dad pick up please pick up worlds end pick up mom pick up I need to know I'm real I need to know there's truth, 'where is my mind? Where is my mind? Whee erre is my mind?' the world fades into itself and what crosses mind is death but no, why? No, need. Dad picks up to my heaving sobs. Rational, collected. Collect call. World freezes.
I've been suffering with severe anxiety for the past year and a half. I recently had to request less hours at work as a result. It brings me a measure of peace if I know I can half-explain myself through poetry because otherwise, the panic attack is probably the most profoundly lonely experience known to man. It feels like you're the only person in the universe and the world is a figment of a solipsistic dream you're about to awake from. So I hope if you feel the same you can know that I do to, and we can be mutual in our realization of this-has-happened-before.
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Jan 16, 2013
Jan 16, 2013 at 9:13 PM UTC
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