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It's strange the way a cluster of neurons in your head reacting to some particular stimulus can make your heart feel like hamburger meat As if there really is a hole in there, and everyone can see right through it. What kind of strange fiction allowed debilitating pain to come from a mere firing sinapse? How unfitting, that such an incomprehensibly small and silent event begets the destruction of worlds. You'd think that with the breaking of a heart should come some ceremony Smashing of a gong, ringing bells, the flight of a thousand crows or even the sound of breaking glass. But we're left with heavy dreams that tug at our consciousness and even heavier moments upon waking and remembering that you have a hole there, that everyone can see right through that didn't even warrant shattering dinnerware.
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Feb 1, 2014
Feb 1, 2014 at 3:47 AM UTC
The Head and the Heart
It's strange the way a cluster of neurons in your head reacting to some particular stimulus can make your heart feel like hamburger meat As if there really is a hole in there, and everyone can see right through it. What kind of strange fiction allowed debilitating pain to come from a mere firing sinapse? How unfitting, that such an incomprehensibly small and silent event begets the destruction of worlds. You'd think that with the breaking of a heart should come some ceremony Smashing of a gong, ringing bells, the flight of a thousand crows or even the sound of breaking glass. But we're left with heavy dreams that tug at our consciousness and even heavier moments upon waking and remembering that you have a hole there, that everyone can see right through that didn't even warrant shattering dinnerware.
ellie-taylor
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F/American
Feb 1, 2014
Feb 1, 2014 at 3:47 AM UTC
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