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zumee May 2018
Paradox-consuming entity
incapable of digesting paradoxes.
zumee May 2018
In order to become
the next Big Thing
one must first
Give up being a person,
devolve into a thing.
zumee May 2018
Virtually nonexistent
is the ability
to stay virtuous while existing
Simply
by virtue of existence
zumee May 2018
would You surrender
Your festering throne
to the purge of a blade
for another game
of cosmic lottery

Death
the one luxury
a King is ashamed to acquire
because
all subjects can afford it
zumee May 2018
365
kissed by Spring at the gentle break of dawn
suffocated by Summer in the languid afternoon
seduced by Autumn under the starry evening sky
stung by Winter in the frozen-dark night

Three hundred and sixty-five times I've thought of you today.
zumee May 2018
Screaming new mother
defecates
on a hospital delivery bed

It's (shaped like) a boy
zumee May 2018
Ideas Big; ideas small
Thirsty leeches that infest
the juicy questions in us all

Extracting them from grey matter
is mostly just a matter
of colorful wording.
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