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zumee May 2021
A suicide ******
to dismantle the ***
counting down nickels
off the sidewalk,
hardwired
to explode in pity
over your thoughtless afternoon

detonate / defuse
red or blue
which to cut
?
(cardboard is not a color)
zumee Apr 2021
living for money
is like cooking
for the kitchen table

why lock yourself
inside
a house
of dreams
when all the fun
is to be had
outside?
when we abuse the tool
we become the tool
  Apr 2021 zumee
Kurt Philip Behm
Knowing today is the best day of your life
—a terrible thing to know

(To Philip Seymour Hoffman: April, 2021)
zumee Apr 2021
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merrily merrily merrily brainwashed.
but hey we're squeeky clean
zumee Apr 2021
world
closes down;
human
opens up

bleeding currency:
numbers, color
...while the economics of the thing says that Cutting as a form of self-harm is simply a physiological carrying-out of the unrealized psychological metaphor of "opening up" (possible extrapolation in all directions of physical violence...)

You are not alone, You are not an island, You are Everything. Everything needs Everything else. Get up. Get help. You can do this.
  Apr 2021 zumee
a m a n d a
call it what you will
i know i can create life
with just this thought
alone
zumee Apr 2021
show me the hand
that will not brave
the jaws of the wolf
to pluck
a budding fang,
but reaches
willingly
for the sheep
with a bouquet
of withered knives
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