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I sip my water doused in fire and recall the time I tried to get sober by drinking myself into oblivion I’m not sure why this comes to me now as I watch old men worship a spectacle of a flaming sky and proclaim the scorched earth will be reborn as a garden of flowers yearning toward their sun
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Jan 4
Jan 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM UTC
Peace Through Strength
I sip my water doused in fire and recall the time I tried to get sober by drinking myself into oblivion I’m not sure why this comes to me now as I watch old men worship a spectacle of a flaming sky and proclaim the scorched earth will be reborn as a garden of flowers yearning toward their sun
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51/M/West Deptford, NJ
Jan 4
Jan 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM UTC
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