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they are eating the flesh of sirens in this world, all ghosts are women i give birth to a caveful of bats i can see the planet neptune clearly with my own two eyes this is the language written in wisps of smoke the sky is filled entirely with ghosts i cannot burn this city without you the blood is too pale for my body i’ve forgotten what hunger feels like what was the first name for this plague? the terrible world where there is no madness the unicorn has been pierced with these arrows and must carry them forever venus replaces the sun we anoint a dozen queens to reign over the moon and war with one another through the night the jackals gnaw the rib bones of isis all through the night we’re making it, we’re making it through the night again through the night
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Feb 6, 2020
Feb 6, 2020 at 6:54 PM UTC
through the night
they are eating the flesh of sirens in this world, all ghosts are women i give birth to a caveful of bats i can see the planet neptune clearly with my own two eyes this is the language written in wisps of smoke the sky is filled entirely with ghosts i cannot burn this city without you the blood is too pale for my body i’ve forgotten what hunger feels like what was the first name for this plague? the terrible world where there is no madness the unicorn has been pierced with these arrows and must carry them forever venus replaces the sun we anoint a dozen queens to reign over the moon and war with one another through the night the jackals gnaw the rib bones of isis all through the night we’re making it, we’re making it through the night again through the night
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Feb 6, 2020
Feb 6, 2020 at 6:54 PM UTC
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