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To die for the privilege of dying. To see. To know. Is intellect truly as undesirable as it is unprofitable? Corporate-processed ChatGPT google echo-chamber endless  sycophantic garbage passed off as culture ! Recalcitrant serendipity. Reluctant tertiary excoriations. Smothered under mass-produced idiocy and sparkly, makeup-coated saccharine falsehood. Paltry verisimilitude — unequivocally vacillating and infantilized. My failure? YOUR failure   !!!! And the idiocy ever ending         doesn’t end it. The corporations  never can stop  course, its just s  the Cola wars  and cigarette health denial but sneakier    they killed “cool” and replaced it with algorithms that tell you what kind of  non binary outsider you’re  '  allowed to be ". Swipe right. Vacuous. Inane. Presupposed. Shallow  ' Barney"  destiny. **** in, **** out.  ( they wouldn't know the  difference ) No freedom. No remorse. Not even a semblance of empathy. Stranger  danger,   stranger danger ! So far from seeing or acknowledging the chosen sludge I’m forced to endure. K-pop. Disney daytime TV. Social media. TikTok. Mental **** and neglect disguised as entertainment.... How is this even possible let alone successfully        loved? “Get thee behind me, Satan.”   lol    ( Satan ... as if)     TWEENS   !    , I rebuke you.   ( You forsake me, and I care not. )  Reddit mediators   =  hate farm trolls I have bowel movements both deeper and more satisfying than what you love and get tattoos of. One Direction.  bletch  ***  fml !   Beiber  ******** Cringe. Vomitous rage and Jersy shore  sloven std  sadness. Standards: dead and buried. The slippery slope of a hellscape future of only more — and  even  worse.  BET,  MTV Why, God? Why? And how?   Were we secretly defeated by Korea?  Do da doot da do Did twelve-year-olds suddenly become a target demographic earning powerhouse ?   ???? They   CAN'T    make or sell    anything resembling real  poetry, so they killed poetry.  Thanks  Hallmark... Can’t put a price on awe, so they replaced it with G-rated plastic  Tay tay  “content.” It’s all been flattened into one long, unblinking, androgynous dental-implant smile with teeth so white they could signal alien aircraft. Sinclair Media fantasies drilled into existence, and infinitely  repackaged. Marvel disney starwars  part  228 who cares...   The commodification of seven-minute generational Sesame Street attention slowly eroded to near-constant **** in one form or another. Idiot generations    so plastic, so V-chipped, so "clean " and shallow, so self-centered in their mommies’  collection plate  safe space they can’t even know they’re tipper Gore  mediocre at best. Group projects. Groupthink. The death of the individual. They wouldn't even know what's worth fighting for or why. Just label it bullying take your prescription zombification and move on. Can I still pay someone for a backroom lobotomy?  Please ...
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Oct 15, 2025
Oct 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM UTC
Post-Depth Civilization
To die for the privilege of dying. To see. To know. Is intellect truly as undesirable as it is unprofitable? Corporate-processed ChatGPT google echo-chamber endless  sycophantic garbage passed off as culture ! Recalcitrant serendipity. Reluctant tertiary excoriations. Smothered under mass-produced idiocy and sparkly, makeup-coated saccharine falsehood. Paltry verisimilitude — unequivocally vacillating and infantilized. My failure? YOUR failure   !!!! And the idiocy ever ending         doesn’t end it. The corporations  never can stop  course, its just s  the Cola wars  and cigarette health denial but sneakier    they killed “cool” and replaced it with algorithms that tell you what kind of  non binary outsider you’re  '  allowed to be ". Swipe right. Vacuous. Inane. Presupposed. Shallow  ' Barney"  destiny. **** in, **** out.  ( they wouldn't know the  difference ) No freedom. No remorse. Not even a semblance of empathy. Stranger  danger,   stranger danger ! So far from seeing or acknowledging the chosen sludge I’m forced to endure. K-pop. Disney daytime TV. Social media. TikTok. Mental **** and neglect disguised as entertainment.... How is this even possible let alone successfully        loved? “Get thee behind me, Satan.”   lol    ( Satan ... as if)     TWEENS   !    , I rebuke you.   ( You forsake me, and I care not. )  Reddit mediators   =  hate farm trolls I have bowel movements both deeper and more satisfying than what you love and get tattoos of. One Direction.  bletch  ***  fml !   Beiber  ******** Cringe. Vomitous rage and Jersy shore  sloven std  sadness. Standards: dead and buried. The slippery slope of a hellscape future of only more — and  even  worse.  BET,  MTV Why, God? Why? And how?   Were we secretly defeated by Korea?  Do da doot da do Did twelve-year-olds suddenly become a target demographic earning powerhouse ?   ???? They   CAN'T    make or sell    anything resembling real  poetry, so they killed poetry.  Thanks  Hallmark... Can’t put a price on awe, so they replaced it with G-rated plastic  Tay tay  “content.” It’s all been flattened into one long, unblinking, androgynous dental-implant smile with teeth so white they could signal alien aircraft. Sinclair Media fantasies drilled into existence, and infinitely  repackaged. Marvel disney starwars  part  228 who cares...   The commodification of seven-minute generational Sesame Street attention slowly eroded to near-constant **** in one form or another. Idiot generations    so plastic, so V-chipped, so "clean " and shallow, so self-centered in their mommies’  collection plate  safe space they can’t even know they’re tipper Gore  mediocre at best. Group projects. Groupthink. The death of the individual. They wouldn't even know what's worth fighting for or why. Just label it bullying take your prescription zombification and move on. Can I still pay someone for a backroom lobotomy?  Please ...
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The world is a gaping maw of ignorance Filled to the brim with hatred, Intolerance, Unadulterated bigotry, And millions of eyes, Blinded mid-lobotomy, That self-performed procedure That protects the subject From any sudden understandings. Things are not as they ought to be, But then things never were And never will Be. The world is the way it is, And those of us who couldn’t cut into our own calculating core, Those of us who attempted the task with a torrent of tonics Instead of hammer and shiv, Find ourselves wandering through a wasteland of willful Idiots and bigoted bullies. Try as we might to open their eyes, Open their minds, We fail. Their eyes are hollow shells and dust. Their minds are awash with religious rules, rifles, ruination, Walls, borders, fences, Imaginary lines drawn everywhere, Over everything, And their brains are protected from learning anything new Or different By miles of scar tissue and an overabundance of barnacles. So that leaves the rest of us, The ones with eyes open, minds primed and wide, Stuck. Lost in a world of people who will never understand, Never let real freedom ring, Never erase the imaginary lines they drew themselves, Never accept that everything they believe Is preposterously perverse. The more we try to spread the truth, Attempt to put an end to the primitive procedure of self inflicted Amentia, The more they try to stomp us out, Extinguish our flames, Burn us to the ground. But we continue to fight, to bleed, to die. Sometimes because we still have hope that things can and will Get better. But more often than not, We fight on because it's the only thing that keeps us From picking up that ice-pick ourselves and becoming Another one of the mindless masses.
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Nov 20, 2018
Nov 20, 2018 at 10:47 AM UTC
One Foot Nailed to the Floor
The world is a gaping maw of ignorance Filled to the brim with hatred, Intolerance, Unadulterated bigotry, And millions of eyes, Blinded mid-lobotomy, That self-performed procedure That protects the subject From any sudden understandings. Things are not as they ought to be, But then things never were And never will Be. The world is the way it is, And those of us who couldn’t cut into our own calculating core, Those of us who attempted the task with a torrent of tonics Instead of hammer and shiv, Find ourselves wandering through a wasteland of willful Idiots and bigoted bullies. Try as we might to open their eyes, Open their minds, We fail. Their eyes are hollow shells and dust. Their minds are awash with religious rules, rifles, ruination, Walls, borders, fences, Imaginary lines drawn everywhere, Over everything, And their brains are protected from learning anything new Or different By miles of scar tissue and an overabundance of barnacles. So that leaves the rest of us, The ones with eyes open, minds primed and wide, Stuck. Lost in a world of people who will never understand, Never let real freedom ring, Never erase the imaginary lines they drew themselves, Never accept that everything they believe Is preposterously perverse. The more we try to spread the truth, Attempt to put an end to the primitive procedure of self inflicted Amentia, The more they try to stomp us out, Extinguish our flames, Burn us to the ground. But we continue to fight, to bleed, to die. Sometimes because we still have hope that things can and will Get better. But more often than not, We fight on because it's the only thing that keeps us From picking up that ice-pick ourselves and becoming Another one of the mindless masses.
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mind your head can’t concentrate i want you to go don’t stay away i’m being feisty my smile is numb you got me walking saying ******* you’re in my line of sight and range but duck your head before it’s too late my voices are all out i won’t say a thing but i’ll hang around till i get what you mean pardon, i lost my mind when you came around you’re far too high for me so let me go, let me go down.
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Mar 12, 2018
Mar 12, 2018 at 3:08 PM UTC
after the lobotomy
I'm not me I swear it see Since a teen I seen a part Of me that's mean. Apart of me that's been Apart of me that knows Hidden till it shows Though it hardly Ever blows. It's older Colder More daring And bolder. It's apart as Much as it is seperare. It stole my age Cause older I feel In turn And cold how the fire In me burns. But for breath it yearns At ends with me. Mostly I'd like to Lay in the Sea And be free. But my demon Makes me live And evade the currents Caught in me. My demon makes Me me, we lack Dichotomy. I'm one with What opposes me, In an convenient Lobotomy.
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Nov 29, 2017
Nov 29, 2017 at 6:39 AM UTC
Lobotomy
I miss you, And I'm up in arms Over something my brother said. See I've have things I Struggle with Almost constantly, Like because I have a handful of mental illnesses, Does that make me bad? Or do my illnesses Make me insane? Or does my illness Mean I'm held More or less accountable For things I can't control? Having been abused, Does that mean I'll repeat the cycle? Or does it my mental illness Make me so? I'm up in arms For having been accused Once or twice Of using someone as a punching bag, But she fails to remember The majority of our Junior and Senior Years, When she would gladly rip into me All because she felt it was right, During her time of month. Not to say it was right, It wasn't right, For me to treat her poorly As I tried to survive, But either way, There were ways to end a friendship Better than her falsehoods. And I'm up in arms, Because I'm on the defensive, And I'm scared I'm not my best, And I know in real, grown up love, So they say, You're supposed to stick by someone Even at their worst. And I'll stick by you, Easily. It won't be difficult for me. I've seen some things. But I don't want you To ever see me At my worst, So I'm up in arms, And I'm scared, And I'm considering Getting the deep insides Of my medial temporal lobe Removed. Just remove The limbic system. I don't know. Nightmares and memories At every turn. I have to go back To that hell hole For half an hour tomorrow. I'm honestly terrified.
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Aug 18, 2016
Aug 18, 2016 at 9:23 AM UTC
Up In Arms
Tapping scabs smolder my face; predictable And prophecy, like owning a, “dead man’s hand,” Parallel the pistol at your back. It all began when the pen’s been dropped, Somewhere untouchable; beyond claw, Sooner the excuse as I’d long forgotten, “run.” When drink’s not enough and, “escape’s,” the Only to embrace oblivion, so it is and So wrought, a solid right-hook. Executed in pandemonium and Scrambled eggs upstairs, I scratch a different sort of stubborn Come a morning in between graffiti, An anxiety born an impatience for an already evening And, “newborn,” as I look for the Baby’s skin beneath battered lash; But I’d killed that boy long ago. It’s when I find the green in between cracks, Concrete pervades and poisoned memories of mother, Return; they’re scratched upon the stone, Carved under cheek, knotted in lumber and heart. I’ve hammered the point upon slab And before and before and after; Indenting the first letter to my name, remember me, Whilst continuing to procure this numb Nearing necropolis. The fight’s last night, but the blister’s Every day, every hour and every minute; Eternity, as I trace my cheek with two fingers, Once with a ring, and the other A broken knuckle, swollen in a Twenty-second attempt to never let go; One more second or so and so, Ticking, “21,” I fold, letting ropes conjure false hope And only after the hands have grown frigid. So much the longer after my heart had And so much the better.
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Jul 21, 2016
Jul 21, 2016 at 9:52 PM UTC
Medium Rare
Tapping scabs smolder my face; predictable And prophecy, like owning a, “dead man’s hand,” Parallel the pistol at your back. It all began when the pen’s been dropped, Somewhere untouchable; beyond claw, Sooner the excuse as I’d long forgotten, “run.” When drink’s not enough and, “escape’s,” the Only to embrace oblivion, so it is and So wrought, a solid right-hook. Executed in pandemonium and Scrambled eggs upstairs, I scratch a different sort of stubborn Come a morning in between graffiti, An anxiety born an impatience for an already evening And, “newborn,” as I look for the Baby’s skin beneath battered lash; But I’d killed that boy long ago. It’s when I find the green in between cracks, Concrete pervades and poisoned memories of mother, Return; they’re scratched upon the stone, Carved under cheek, knotted in lumber and heart. I’ve hammered the point upon slab And before and before and after; Indenting the first letter to my name, remember me, Whilst continuing to procure this numb Nearing necropolis. The fight’s last night, but the blister’s Every day, every hour and every minute; Eternity, as I trace my cheek with two fingers, Once with a ring, and the other A broken knuckle, swollen in a Twenty-second attempt to never let go; One more second or so and so, Ticking, “21,” I fold, letting ropes conjure false hope And only after the hands have grown frigid. So much the longer after my heart had And so much the better.
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I can't fathom anymore under and above the weather all it's gone wild spun out of control, whatsoever a mess can always get a chance from me. Heavy heart pleased to soar blemished and untethered my lone wolf mind, light and dark like charcoal, falls for recklessness And for a quantum of solace to be free. If that's the case I need a lobotomy for your eyes of carefulness makes me brittle and evolve, like strangers combined, the same way, for better or worse we meet in a bite of our core.
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Jul 18, 2016
Jul 18, 2016 at 12:53 PM UTC
Lobotomy
The dead trespass through my mind They cave in skulls through forced lobotomy They strap the population for lethal injection They take lead fists to soft flesh Claws to clean eyes Stealing voices Cutting out pink tongues Cramming microphone down your throat Can you hear me now Hammers and clubs slam death home with every blow Tonight we let the victims show
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Apr 1, 2016
Apr 1, 2016 at 12:48 AM UTC
Victim Show
maybe if i chilled my mind with an icepick drill the world would sit icy still
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Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016 at 10:19 PM UTC
lobotomize
Just a little off the top. Drawin' a dotted line 'round the skull takin' your shears just above the ear. Cuttin' a close crop. Burrowin' into the skin this time 'round the skull now your clippers smilin' so chipper. Leavin' a head clean smooth. Whistlin' at a near-finished work 'round the skull peelin' back the skin bravin' a peek within. Grabbin' that comb with its fine tooth. Unfurlin' that pink mass of quirk 'round the skull eyein' where tendrils append trimmin' the dead ends.
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Jan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 at 12:25 AM UTC
Cheap Haircut
Razorwire and landmines, a war inside my head Losing my grip on reality,driving my insane Sinking into delusion,obsession with the dead Tearing myself apart, thriving on the pain Closer to the edge than ever before Icarus's wings, watch me soar Sun in my eyes, dirt in my mouth A fall from grace, such a disgrace Icepick to my eye, mallet in your hand Two taps, a twist and its done Peace of mind, emotions gone Now I'm the perfect citizen can't you see Calm and docile, sheepish as can be And all it took was a Lobotomy.
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Sep 20, 2015
Sep 20, 2015 at 6:13 PM UTC
Lobotomy
Lobotomize me Make me dumb Take my voice away So I’ll never hurt again The less I speak The more I feel apathy Its in trying to connect That I feel distant No point trying To clear these gaps Lobotomize me Out of necessity So I won’t lose any more Can’t be happy Can’t be sad Lobotomize me So my desires will fade And I’ll be left drooling at my bedside While the beasts congregate around me Ripping my flesh Replacing my memories with their own Lobotomize me So I can be happy not being the protagonist
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Sep 14, 2015
Sep 14, 2015 at 2:58 PM UTC
Lobotomize Me
they do not speak   mouths sutured shut   their words, thoughts, appear on their skin   like some curious cuneiform, deciphered not by those who wield the scurrilous scalpels   that maimed them   they do not speak   though their screams appear as a rapacious rash of cocky consonants, their whispers as smooth vowels on their exposed hides       they do not speak but hear the flapping of butterflies’ wings the blinking of a dead dogs’ eyes and the sound stars made upon colossal collapse they do not speak but emit eerie odors in fecund olfactory code   “lesser beasts” read with feral snouts and see on the breached breaths the silenced try to conceal     they do not speak   though they see the mocking mouths of their captors and their words that fly through the air   slicing through these mutes, as if they were never there
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 11:17 PM UTC
those without words
First came electric therapy, designed by men to **** her memory. The currents coursed through her veins. They tried to burn her true love from her brain. Synapses flared and flamed singeing away nearly everything she dared to feel almost nothing was left but a name, an impression. Session after session sparks cut through her skull and tore through her mind. All she had to do to escape was to lie, and say she no longer felt that way. However, in her slurred and slow mental state all that she could do was whisper her lovers name. Iris sweet Iris the flower of her love, whose touch sent shivers swimming through her body. Iris the unforgettable, desirable, and unregrettable; even in the hours of her darkest pain she would never wish to forget that wonderful name. A name attached to such pleasurable memories. Iris whose lips tasted like strawberries and mouth would moan musically with her satisfaction. Touching each other under the starlit sky, bare breast against bare breast, licking each other from back to thigh until their passions exploded and they came together in exhaustion. No matter how much their love cost them, the jobs it lost them, the family they had to leave behind, it was all worth it. The love they had was special. Men would glance and stare; Sick with desire and envy, but they didn’t care. The Doctors tried to destroy their love but failed, because buried deep within the burnt flesh, on some deep genetic level the feelings still remained. Night after night she quietly sobbed Iris’s name. Her vision and memories were faded and degraded by the shocks administered. Sometimes after the doctors left and she was by herself, she would search her mind trying to find her own name. Corner to corner each crevice and crack, each hidden corridor in her mind was faded, and the only name she could find was Iris’s. Other evenings when no one was watching the orderlies would sneak into her room to tease and taunt her. They would scar her body with their fevered kisses, violating her womanhood with their vile flesh protruding and extending into her. Her eyes would close. Her body would tense, and her mind would vacate her skull, while holding on to only one thing, Iris. When the merciless administering of electrical current to her brain failed to achieve any notable degree of success, the butcher came. They called him Doctor Slade, A specialist. They brought her to his table in a white room that was sterile and scentless. Her body was strapped to a cold metal table and she was sedated. Slade sliced through the skin on her skull, cracked the bone and opened her up, exposing her mind to the all those in attendance. Then when he was finished, he walked away a proud master mutilator. The nurse, whose white uniform was now splattered and sprayed with blood and bits of brain matter, hauled her back to her room. In her room she sat dripping drool from her swollen lips. Her vacant eyes stared out at the blank wall registering nothing at all. The bandages on her skull concealed small patches of blonde hair matted with clots of blood. Her drawers reeked of ***** matter because she had soiled herself. Nothing remained except a shell. Somewhere far away Iris screamed the forgotten name. In her dreams she cradled her lover’s fragile frame, but never saw or touched her lovers face. Iris scribed their love in journal after journal, sketching out in deep determined details their five years together. She wrote of each high and low from the first time they met in the College courtyard till they day they were separated permanently. Years passed. Iris’s body weakened from despair and began to waste away. Her flesh sagged from her bones bunching into wrinkles with brown speckles and spots parading all over her skin. Memories got lost in the fog of her mind until one day she could no longer recall her lover’s name. Shortly thereafter Iris faded away as well. Her body remained unsoiled by shame, for their love had been a thing of poetry, epic, and beyond belief, a guard against the unjustified onslaught of social madness, a sweet relief no matter how brief.
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Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014 at 11:22 AM UTC
Killing Her Memory
First came electric therapy, designed by men to **** her memory. The currents coursed through her veins. They tried to burn her true love from her brain. Synapses flared and flamed singeing away nearly everything she dared to feel almost nothing was left but a name, an impression. Session after session sparks cut through her skull and tore through her mind. All she had to do to escape was to lie, and say she no longer felt that way. However, in her slurred and slow mental state all that she could do was whisper her lovers name. Iris sweet Iris the flower of her love, whose touch sent shivers swimming through her body. Iris the unforgettable, desirable, and unregrettable; even in the hours of her darkest pain she would never wish to forget that wonderful name. A name attached to such pleasurable memories. Iris whose lips tasted like strawberries and mouth would moan musically with her satisfaction. Touching each other under the starlit sky, bare breast against bare breast, licking each other from back to thigh until their passions exploded and they came together in exhaustion. No matter how much their love cost them, the jobs it lost them, the family they had to leave behind, it was all worth it. The love they had was special. Men would glance and stare; Sick with desire and envy, but they didn’t care. The Doctors tried to destroy their love but failed, because buried deep within the burnt flesh, on some deep genetic level the feelings still remained. Night after night she quietly sobbed Iris’s name. Her vision and memories were faded and degraded by the shocks administered. Sometimes after the doctors left and she was by herself, she would search her mind trying to find her own name. Corner to corner each crevice and crack, each hidden corridor in her mind was faded, and the only name she could find was Iris’s. Other evenings when no one was watching the orderlies would sneak into her room to tease and taunt her. They would scar her body with their fevered kisses, violating her womanhood with their vile flesh protruding and extending into her. Her eyes would close. Her body would tense, and her mind would vacate her skull, while holding on to only one thing, Iris. When the merciless administering of electrical current to her brain failed to achieve any notable degree of success, the butcher came. They called him Doctor Slade, A specialist. They brought her to his table in a white room that was sterile and scentless. Her body was strapped to a cold metal table and she was sedated. Slade sliced through the skin on her skull, cracked the bone and opened her up, exposing her mind to the all those in attendance. Then when he was finished, he walked away a proud master mutilator. The nurse, whose white uniform was now splattered and sprayed with blood and bits of brain matter, hauled her back to her room. In her room she sat dripping drool from her swollen lips. Her vacant eyes stared out at the blank wall registering nothing at all. The bandages on her skull concealed small patches of blonde hair matted with clots of blood. Her drawers reeked of ***** matter because she had soiled herself. Nothing remained except a shell. Somewhere far away Iris screamed the forgotten name. In her dreams she cradled her lover’s fragile frame, but never saw or touched her lovers face. Iris scribed their love in journal after journal, sketching out in deep determined details their five years together. She wrote of each high and low from the first time they met in the College courtyard till they day they were separated permanently. Years passed. Iris’s body weakened from despair and began to waste away. Her flesh sagged from her bones bunching into wrinkles with brown speckles and spots parading all over her skin. Memories got lost in the fog of her mind until one day she could no longer recall her lover’s name. Shortly thereafter Iris faded away as well. Her body remained unsoiled by shame, for their love had been a thing of poetry, epic, and beyond belief, a guard against the unjustified onslaught of social madness, a sweet relief no matter how brief.
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