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Step on the scale fidget fidget "Three Digits!" f a t Shuffle back to Your Room p r i s o n  c e l l 8:00AM Drag yourself to the main desk The Morning Medication line is long today m i n d l e s s Pretty pills fill your palm They have changed colors today They are all shapes, large and colorful c y a n i d e PLUNK PLUNK PLUNK They dive into your empty stomach Swim in acid and glide through your veins Emotional Morphine- You await the glorious numbness s a n i t y and still you crave the blade. b l o o d
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 11:28 PM UTC
Emotional Morphine
The room sinks in like a closing jaw, baring its teeth at the things I saw; the air tastes thick, like dust and dread, a quiet burial for the thoughts I’ve bled. Nights here stretch with a strangled grin, a taut black thread pulling tight on skin; the light on the ceiling hums low and bleak, like it’s mocking the words I do not speak. My mind is a cellar stacked with bones - old decisions rattling in undertones; they shuffle and clatter in the gloom, staking their claim on this padded tomb. Shadows drip down the walls like tar, slow, deliberate, never far; they curl around me, thin and sly, counting the breaths I barely get by. I feel like a fault line waiting to break, a silent tremor under a frozen lake; one wrong thought and the surface cracks, letting the cold crawl up my back.
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Nov 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM UTC
Black Static