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I cannot get anything down. I squeeze and suffocate, choke the words out, waterboarded with books, until there is some water in this ******* drought. Blame it for the lack of ingenuity, for the life-long ambiguity, how I cannot get my message out, no matter how much I scream and shout. The more I write the brighter I burn, but like a fire I go out, forgetting everything that I learn, lost in the smoldering embers of doubt.
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 2:50 PM UTC
Burnt-out Brain.
I cannot get anything down. I squeeze and suffocate, choke the words out, waterboarded with books, until there is some water in this ******* drought. Blame it for the lack of ingenuity, for the life-long ambiguity, how I cannot get my message out, no matter how much I scream and shout. The more I write the brighter I burn, but like a fire I go out, forgetting everything that I learn, lost in the smoldering embers of doubt.
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 2:50 PM UTC
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