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ilo Jan 2024
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------------------------ | |oak, are you lonely,
---------------------------------- | |or do hyphae reach that far?
--------------------- | |alone in the field.
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--------------------------- | |oak, how is your day?
---------------------------------- | |is bluestem good company?
----------------------- | |are you lonely too?
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---------------------------- | |oak, aren't you so tired,
--------------------------------- | |standing so tall in the field?
-------------------------- | |i'm real tired too, oak.
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--------------- | |inosculation.
----------------------------------- | |need be, need me, i am here.
------------------------ | |you can lean on me.
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ilo Mar 2023
i romanticise home
the concept of home
and the lack thereof

do you miss singing?
running? climbing?
bare footed dancing in the rain?

do you miss cultural expansiveness?
open markets?
ma la tang? lamb kabobs?
fashion? anonymity?

my first freedom: car.
home: car was(is?) an allowance of my choice of personhood.
here: anonymity is the allowance of my choice of personhood.
here car is:
-  person, victim of transportation injustice,
  stuck in a positive feedback loop [car to get
  to job, job to pay for car] that makes the car a
  necessity
-  machine made by climate criminals, an
  object that personifies their ecologically grim
  themed hedonism and thus ensures
  environmental injustice for both human and
  non-human

will i miss Sydney for the opportunity of consumption or for the lack of needing consumption to be myself?
ilo Oct 2022
he is me
irrevocably me
i could look at his soul
and he'd be mine in matching pajamas
ilo Sep 2022
hmm
when you're going deaf,
you haven't got much choice
i don't know how
to scrapbook my own voice

but when the last overworked decibel
gets too tired to keep going
i will still feel the vibration of your heartbeat
ilo Jun 2022
he’s perfect for a white picket fence
ilo May 2022
wanna be free
in a world where freedom gotta fee
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