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The mechanism of my body is ticking away the moments: clinical seconds, dehydrated hours, years washed too clean. The orbit of my ribs makes its rounds with momentous clicking felt as a ripple- a forte into seizure. There's something industrial in the alignment of these organs: A factory of ventricles straining against the assembly line. I'm a blood clock, tragic motor; I'm an organism too mechanical to hold. With a liver like a coal burner and lungs to expel the smoke, how can I find a way back to being human.
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Feb 22, 2021
Feb 22, 2021 at 11:33 AM UTC
Back to Human
The mechanism of my body is ticking away the moments: clinical seconds, dehydrated hours, years washed too clean. The orbit of my ribs makes its rounds with momentous clicking felt as a ripple- a forte into seizure. There's something industrial in the alignment of these organs: A factory of ventricles straining against the assembly line. I'm a blood clock, tragic motor; I'm an organism too mechanical to hold. With a liver like a coal burner and lungs to expel the smoke, how can I find a way back to being human.
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Feb 22, 2021
Feb 22, 2021 at 11:33 AM UTC
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