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My life does not stretch out before me like the yellow brick road, nor does it cling to the past like the nostalgic mush of the old, it is a maelstrom of now and wonder with the eye my calm abode. The memories of fear and joy always erode, as the pouring here lands hard in droves, and the beauty of current crackles then explodes. I try to deflect the winds of time, I try to shelter my memories of you, and I try to ground my booming poetics in the little solid I know, but these ephemeral reprieves are the total domain of my weapons against my world, and my raging present is ultimately all I have to offer.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 6:18 PM UTC
Raging Present
My life does not stretch out before me like the yellow brick road, nor does it cling to the past like the nostalgic mush of the old, it is a maelstrom of now and wonder with the eye my calm abode. The memories of fear and joy always erode, as the pouring here lands hard in droves, and the beauty of current crackles then explodes. I try to deflect the winds of time, I try to shelter my memories of you, and I try to ground my booming poetics in the little solid I know, but these ephemeral reprieves are the total domain of my weapons against my world, and my raging present is ultimately all I have to offer.
jordan-lee-mercer
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 6:18 PM UTC
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