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As I inhale, I catch your breath next to mine in the hallway, your hands are covered in blue veins and you tell me about the amygdala and the chemicals in our brains. I tell you how there are subtleties in the dark coronaries, there is a linger that assembles in the blood before it takes in the breath, there are secrets to the cells and the capillaries. Your hands are shaking a small bit, pale and blue, in the middle of the hallway. I grab them, you close your eyes, I know you wish you were elsewhere, but you must remember this life is a caricature of biology; we are all elsewhere - I wish I could tell you, that all I want to do is stratify you, lay you out across millennia, until you are everywhere in every rock every mineral. Tell you to remember, our birth is before the first day; we are the light before the dawn breaks - we are circulated me and you, like breath, like the morning star, effortlessly, orbiting - do you think we would fall off if the earth stopped spinning? “I do wonder if there would still be oxygen”
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM UTC
Gravity
As I inhale, I catch your breath next to mine in the hallway, your hands are covered in blue veins and you tell me about the amygdala and the chemicals in our brains. I tell you how there are subtleties in the dark coronaries, there is a linger that assembles in the blood before it takes in the breath, there are secrets to the cells and the capillaries. Your hands are shaking a small bit, pale and blue, in the middle of the hallway. I grab them, you close your eyes, I know you wish you were elsewhere, but you must remember this life is a caricature of biology; we are all elsewhere - I wish I could tell you, that all I want to do is stratify you, lay you out across millennia, until you are everywhere in every rock every mineral. Tell you to remember, our birth is before the first day; we are the light before the dawn breaks - we are circulated me and you, like breath, like the morning star, effortlessly, orbiting - do you think we would fall off if the earth stopped spinning? “I do wonder if there would still be oxygen”
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shoki
Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM UTC
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