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Waiting for a miracle. Seems we took the wine and the candle oil a little for granted, should have left us with water and shadows, eight days in the dark doesn't seem so terrible compared to this. They say that it's cancer, slow and steady, they say it's irreparable, that it's late, much too late, they say not bad news only bad luck. Nothing left but waiting for a miracle. **** the waiting of this world, of this life. Repressed tension in muscles burning to break free, to flail out, to hit something but what good will that do? Deep breaths. nothing left but to wait for that bomb to fall, that plane to crash, for that baseline pulse to whisper mono- tone in my ear. No- thing left but a miracle. Not bad news --they say-- only bad luck.
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 10:17 PM UTC
Pulse
Waiting for a miracle. Seems we took the wine and the candle oil a little for granted, should have left us with water and shadows, eight days in the dark doesn't seem so terrible compared to this. They say that it's cancer, slow and steady, they say it's irreparable, that it's late, much too late, they say not bad news only bad luck. Nothing left but waiting for a miracle. **** the waiting of this world, of this life. Repressed tension in muscles burning to break free, to flail out, to hit something but what good will that do? Deep breaths. nothing left but to wait for that bomb to fall, that plane to crash, for that baseline pulse to whisper mono- tone in my ear. No- thing left but a miracle. Not bad news --they say-- only bad luck.
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 10:17 PM UTC
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