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#digestion
Anyone who wants renewal must eat others: Eat or be eaten.
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Jan 7
Jan 7, 2026 at 4:28 AM UTC
[ Anyone who wants ]
Stillness—your mercy a cruel myth. Lotus rises from silted depths; but we drown in slow decay— no resting place, Yet buried by silent autodigestion.
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Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM UTC
cruel mercy of stillness 🪷
Weary and wanting from the ache inside No emotion at any depth I try to hide A hollow pit waiting for something to burn You can fill up the spaces but there’s always a way out Down through the tunnel and out to be more Th urge once again rises and the search continues No absolute but a constant hope to be fulfilled Something sufficient Providing contentment Would the pursuit transform into another I beg for a new world Or perhaps a new heart No matter how hard I try Trying is the opposite of actuality A veil over reality by our thoughts and layers of excuses to manifest In the end there is nothing and in the beginning there was nothing The gap that leads into infinity An understanding of a black hole empathically Maybe it really does hold a universe How natural is it to be empty and yet create boundaries of space and time We perceive the outside but in essence is it truly empty Or is it a hole even? Perhaps we perceive a sphere but in higher dimensions we’d see it as what we understand to be a tunnel Where would it take us I think it will only take us to another land where we translate the hunger into a new form The multiverse is just another reason to keep searching after we’ve only found half the answers in this one It seems we never even finish what we start Because we fear the end We’ve made it fatal in our minds When our soul knows nothing may be permanent here There is a universe that came before all of this where we truly exist And know this is a game that we’ve played for eons To entertain ourselves To evolve as the divine always has Transcending labels because it moves regardless of our insignificant judgements Will the static stagnation into a dynamic situation Simultaneous reaction Awake while in a dream Looking for an opening and the maze will always grow Let it go
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Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 at 11:27 AM UTC
Devour
Weary and wanting from the ache inside No emotion at any depth I try to hide A hollow pit waiting for something to burn You can fill up the spaces but there’s always a way out Down through the tunnel and out to be more Th urge once again rises and the search continues No absolute but a constant hope to be fulfilled Something sufficient Providing contentment Would the pursuit transform into another I beg for a new world Or perhaps a new heart No matter how hard I try Trying is the opposite of actuality A veil over reality by our thoughts and layers of excuses to manifest In the end there is nothing and in the beginning there was nothing The gap that leads into infinity An understanding of a black hole empathically Maybe it really does hold a universe How natural is it to be empty and yet create boundaries of space and time We perceive the outside but in essence is it truly empty Or is it a hole even? Perhaps we perceive a sphere but in higher dimensions we’d see it as what we understand to be a tunnel Where would it take us I think it will only take us to another land where we translate the hunger into a new form The multiverse is just another reason to keep searching after we’ve only found half the answers in this one It seems we never even finish what we start Because we fear the end We’ve made it fatal in our minds When our soul knows nothing may be permanent here There is a universe that came before all of this where we truly exist And know this is a game that we’ve played for eons To entertain ourselves To evolve as the divine always has Transcending labels because it moves regardless of our insignificant judgements Will the static stagnation into a dynamic situation Simultaneous reaction Awake while in a dream Looking for an opening and the maze will always grow Let it go
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You know you're aging when silence becomes a major part of your presence
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Mar 7, 2018
Mar 7, 2018 at 3:06 AM UTC
Older-ish
an inchworm, up-ing and down-ing its way through my intestines is not bright green as it traverses the dark gloomy lumen of my insides. darkness requires complete darkness, no color, just darkness, but at least it is warm. i do not know if the inchworm can see but i hope it can feel comfort in the dark. dear inchworm, i wish you good fortune on your travels as you measure my insides with tenacious tickling loops.
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Dec 3, 2017
Dec 3, 2017 at 2:26 PM UTC
traversal
Loads of bubble wrap piled behind and it crackles like how a stomach gets twisted on itself after eons of sleep decoding it's diaphragm to follow the blips and beeps and bleeps encrusted on trusting a tight gut reaction to wanting to touch you. But waiting is so difficult. Loads of suds creep up forming in cysts or scabs upon stomach encasings all slimy and orange inside with a stretchy cover all deep royal purple with dark pink veins coursing through it encoding the rapture of film recording while the lining inside gets all clammy with arousal secretly clenching this yearning and aching just wanting to touch you. But waiting is so difficult. It's a difficult, messy procedure that leaves the body exposed if it comes in contact to actual skin and flush and heat and mucus but it is a necessary step to colloquial banter within the clustering of organs all internally arguing while the overwhelmed brain tries to keep order and the genitalia hums all quiet in the corner because she knows she runs the show. And it's funny because the brain knows he'll have to give in to the actual world of living folks and climb out of his bundled fabulous fantasies in order to make reality plausible. And in wanting you and in waiting I've found myself in visceral shock to the point where I panic and all that's jumbled up and bound inside me seems to clench tighter. And I fear that in waiting for your mutual touch and I fear that in wanting to be with you so much I'll collapse under the weight and never get up. Loads of words hide beneath me resting in tubes that resemble the small intestines in looping nests of unbridled questions. Will it be enough to see you and not touch you? Will it be enough to talk with you and not kiss you? Will it be enough to be chaste and respectful when all my brain needs to do is test you? When all my brain wants to do is clobber you whole, chew, then swallow, spitting out bones?
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Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 at 2:19 PM UTC
How to Digest a Lover
Loads of bubble wrap piled behind and it crackles like how a stomach gets twisted on itself after eons of sleep decoding it's diaphragm to follow the blips and beeps and bleeps encrusted on trusting a tight gut reaction to wanting to touch you. But waiting is so difficult. Loads of suds creep up forming in cysts or scabs upon stomach encasings all slimy and orange inside with a stretchy cover all deep royal purple with dark pink veins coursing through it encoding the rapture of film recording while the lining inside gets all clammy with arousal secretly clenching this yearning and aching just wanting to touch you. But waiting is so difficult. It's a difficult, messy procedure that leaves the body exposed if it comes in contact to actual skin and flush and heat and mucus but it is a necessary step to colloquial banter within the clustering of organs all internally arguing while the overwhelmed brain tries to keep order and the genitalia hums all quiet in the corner because she knows she runs the show. And it's funny because the brain knows he'll have to give in to the actual world of living folks and climb out of his bundled fabulous fantasies in order to make reality plausible. And in wanting you and in waiting I've found myself in visceral shock to the point where I panic and all that's jumbled up and bound inside me seems to clench tighter. And I fear that in waiting for your mutual touch and I fear that in wanting to be with you so much I'll collapse under the weight and never get up. Loads of words hide beneath me resting in tubes that resemble the small intestines in looping nests of unbridled questions. Will it be enough to see you and not touch you? Will it be enough to talk with you and not kiss you? Will it be enough to be chaste and respectful when all my brain needs to do is test you? When all my brain wants to do is clobber you whole, chew, then swallow, spitting out bones?
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Wipe me clean of bitterness: left over is a bland weak limp thing who cannot stand out in a meal, gets eaten for lunch no consequences for the stomach that restrains me
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Jul 14, 2014
Jul 14, 2014 at 2:31 PM UTC
Horseradish speaks
Aunt Lottie had a slow and careful walk every step could jar the delicate balance of the fragile grand piano she had swallowed. It was no ordinary instrument it was entirely made of crystal which added to the fears of its disturbance or destruction by the simplest slip or stumble or missed footing on a step. It was a slight inconvenience she had taken in her stride. Matters concerning the said piano were only discussed in hushed tones on Wednesday afternoons and only with her dearest nephew, Ludwig who sensitively seemed to understand the precious nature of imagination and the tickling discomforts of digested furniture and such things as fancy may create.
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM UTC
Bavarian Aunt
Too much on one plate For a four course dinner date with death Its getting late and I still can't digest her inevitability
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 3:40 PM UTC
Dinner Date (With Death)