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"tunnelling" poems
.ah here comes england with its eccentricities, ah hier kommt polen mit seine christentum: where anyone can be a messiah, as stressed by the byzantines. my first love was the love of the english grey, (in honesty mentioned it was the double-decker first, since i fancied myself the great bus-driver of the no. 5 bus back home) earl grey came and said: ‘i can’t look at these skies without sunglasses!’ and so it was, mid-autumn with sunglasses at loss the sun-worshiper enter the moon idiot, looking for accents, looking for anything. in england they called him das deutsche - for reasons believable enough; the luftwaffe eagerly anticipating the tunnelling centipede that is the euro-star train-tunnel: the panzers are rolling in! the panzers are rolling in! strange he never minded the coal-miners as useful as minded by edvard gierek von silesia - to the dispute of silesians not ex-patriated to saxony (oh wait... texan boy doesn't sound as nationalistic as minnesota boy?). ooh pokey poo... writing about germany became so **** so recently, i forget that i started it: here’s to the english language’s chirality of s and z, actually being superimposable: from words in the socratic sense as encoded by plato i don't get a bunch of ideas... virtue does not make me ponder it with meaning or definition, i only see the kabbalistic sensibility of anti-alphabetical sequencing as v i                   r               t               u          e... otherwise              e      i    u             r         t         v; almost sounds like s.t.d.
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Nov 7, 2015
Nov 7, 2015 at 6:33 AM UTC
Naked Orthography
.ah here comes england with its eccentricities, ah hier kommt polen mit seine christentum: where anyone can be a messiah, as stressed by the byzantines. my first love was the love of the english grey, (in honesty mentioned it was the double-decker first, since i fancied myself the great bus-driver of the no. 5 bus back home) earl grey came and said: ‘i can’t look at these skies without sunglasses!’ and so it was, mid-autumn with sunglasses at loss the sun-worshiper enter the moon idiot, looking for accents, looking for anything. in england they called him das deutsche - for reasons believable enough; the luftwaffe eagerly anticipating the tunnelling centipede that is the euro-star train-tunnel: the panzers are rolling in! the panzers are rolling in! strange he never minded the coal-miners as useful as minded by edvard gierek von silesia - to the dispute of silesians not ex-patriated to saxony (oh wait... texan boy doesn't sound as nationalistic as minnesota boy?). ooh pokey poo... writing about germany became so **** so recently, i forget that i started it: here’s to the english language’s chirality of s and z, actually being superimposable: from words in the socratic sense as encoded by plato i don't get a bunch of ideas... virtue does not make me ponder it with meaning or definition, i only see the kabbalistic sensibility of anti-alphabetical sequencing as v i                   r               t               u          e... otherwise              e      i    u             r         t         v; almost sounds like s.t.d.
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Goblins live in tunnels- at the end of the garden They wreak havoc- when everyone is sleeping Tunnelling into dreams- spreading their poison Powerful potions- to confuse waking from sleeping
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Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014 at 9:46 AM UTC
Goblins
It's here! It's here! One of the Best And Brightest Days Now's the Time to rev-up our Ways. That Glazing Star, which spits the Rays Shone brightly through Helios, the Highest Display. Beaches un-roll their sleek-forming sands As Pools de-frost their blue-tanned waves. Swimmers do dive, and enjoy the Save In Iberia's Coast rescue in Grand. There are many Events in This Hot-Baste Holiday Worry not; For it will slowly Pass Away About a month-two - quill, quite awhilst Just enough for me to produce More Words in-rhyme. Writing on Holidays must always be fun For Experiences like these, pressed Under the Sun Tram-Tracked Thoughts, which does Hurt to remember Will be preserved - thanks to November. Family, Friends, Extensions and Strangers There the Bunch starts to get all blokey Boring Concepts, birth these Megaphone Chaps You world prefer to dance on their laps. Maybe what I said meant something else Those Words of mine touched Heart and felt Such gradual boredom - in time I agree For tunnelling Facts, with Evidence plead. Nevertheless, let the Holidays sing And let our Lives live that Full Extract. Be Happy, Gay and Humble in Kind For once the Headmaster whistles, you'll Have a Sortie ahead.
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Mar 21, 2013
Mar 21, 2013 at 12:56 PM UTC
SUMMER HOLIDAY
You said save the Damsel, but she's in no distress I'm selfishly half dressed and less awake than my clothes expect me to be You said woo her with poetry, but I'm out of back-of-receipts and torn off edges I'm tired, and the shiraz has got to me it started tunnelling through hollowed veins hours back You said she'll be gone with the dew leaving nothing but drops on your lips
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Sep 7, 2013
Sep 7, 2013 at 2:03 PM UTC
Drops On Your Lips
The summer roars in, but why do the leaves fall? This is the season of the spring, and the flowers revel in their grandiloquence of colour but right outside the window where you and I lay studying for hours on end, there is a tree that sheds its yellow leaves speaking of an epoch of time where once it was young and all green and then I think of you and me; how the summer is tunnelling through the happiness that beset our lives right now and we are sedated. I walk with you for miles and talk with you along the way and we skip over one topic to another, as if we were making our own house of cards. I eat with you everyday, and you let me be with you; Just like that yellow-leaves-shedding tree, I wonder if what we have will one day tumble into oblivion and I will only have memories of you on my phone and in my heart that then might ache.
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Apr 19, 2014
Apr 19, 2014 at 2:46 PM UTC
Yellow Leaves of A Shedding Tree
In animal death, a breath of relief Tunnelling through the airways for one last Sigh of non-defeat, of exaltation and release Not to be, or better, to be free of mortality Made immortal with passing life Taking strife by the neck and repeating I am no longer your victim In animal death, a universal strength Where no obstacles lay before happiness And instincts are not policed Your fanciful dreams of green treats, fulfilled And failing kidneys can rot as they please Please, shed only a handful of tears On the graves of decomposing beasts Released from the shackle of domestication, For the ones that suffer are surely the living.
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Feb 11, 2017
Feb 11, 2017 at 12:33 AM UTC
To Sitka
Caught in the maze Of amazing veins ****** cells excel Tunnelling thru’ Vessels and vestibules Mind oscillates vacillates In chaotic amplitude Like a pendant in pendulum Of wishes and vices Divine and devilish Wise and unwise Pride and prejudice Dual mind is in duel Behind the temple Brain at home in skull Will and wit seated well in skill Rein, rule or roam and ruin Embroidered and embroiled Embodied and emboldened Meditate, mediate, Cogitate, agitate Churn and spurn Nurture the soul within Explore the radiant light At the end of the tunnel Mind, the deity on duty As mysterious as its Maker, The Brain behind the brain
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 8:08 PM UTC
Mind Blowing
I spotted a fortune teller at an old county fair while knowing the answers I still looked for some there. There was no love line or fate line she could’ve read, I told her I bet there’s no sun line, life line or trace of a head. She met my eyes with sadness written all over her face, and told me out of all people that I was her worst case. She traced the inside of my hand intently trying to see then she asked me had I recently been burned severely. In my death bed I’ve been waiting patiently for sleep sadly I’m not the one it wishes to greet. With past scars and present fresh wounds tunnelling down so deep, loss of blood and mind so I’m left as just a sack of meat. A loving caress to each feature but succeed in only poking the bone, and every single living creature dies completely alone. She was a rainbow and I; charcoal grey, they all choose to go but claim they wish to stay. The beeping bouncing off the wall steady like sirens or alarms, and at the end of it all we all die in our own arms. She was a rainbow and I; charcoal grey, I still catch her glow but it’s fading away, I know it could never last, but I still have to pray, ‘cause I am the past and she’s only in today. I’ve acted strong and kept up this ruse, atleast I can say I’ve always been brave, but when I’m not digging up the past, ghosts or clues, I’ve steadily been digging my own grave. No lines, no ties, not a single strand. I’ve got the palmist right in the palm of my hand.
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Aug 22, 2019
Aug 22, 2019 at 10:00 PM UTC
Palmists & Purgatory
I spotted a fortune teller at an old county fair while knowing the answers I still looked for some there. There was no love line or fate line she could’ve read, I told her I bet there’s no sun line, life line or trace of a head. She met my eyes with sadness written all over her face, and told me out of all people that I was her worst case. She traced the inside of my hand intently trying to see then she asked me had I recently been burned severely. In my death bed I’ve been waiting patiently for sleep sadly I’m not the one it wishes to greet. With past scars and present fresh wounds tunnelling down so deep, loss of blood and mind so I’m left as just a sack of meat. A loving caress to each feature but succeed in only poking the bone, and every single living creature dies completely alone. She was a rainbow and I; charcoal grey, they all choose to go but claim they wish to stay. The beeping bouncing off the wall steady like sirens or alarms, and at the end of it all we all die in our own arms. She was a rainbow and I; charcoal grey, I still catch her glow but it’s fading away, I know it could never last, but I still have to pray, ‘cause I am the past and she’s only in today. I’ve acted strong and kept up this ruse, atleast I can say I’ve always been brave, but when I’m not digging up the past, ghosts or clues, I’ve steadily been digging my own grave. No lines, no ties, not a single strand. I’ve got the palmist right in the palm of my hand.
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Dealing with OCD is like losing your mind, You can be in a room full of people, yet all alone, Noone can ever know when the horrible thoughts will come and what they will be you just feel a buzz, a hum, a drone in your head and you try to block it out but like Sony Xperia apps running in the background, they are there, infernal consuming the bandwidth of your soul there is a fine line between delusion and sanity a clutching at straws, a search for help pleas and pleas fall not on deaf ears but endure it you must until it runs its course tunnelling on, pushing you to the edge straddling the fine line buoying bobbing, dancing, fleeting- drowning you in its wake as you gasp and gasp OCD is horrible and misunderstood why it hit me, I know not- when it came part of me, I never agreed I just woke up arrested, paralysed by the most unutterable thoughts... I suspect it happened when I met the thin woman with the one eye- I have known no peace since then Paranormal paranoia rules my brain and I am mooted, glued in the vile filth of guilt, shame, anger, helplessness- like a generator running on fuel, incessant the tyres do not stop burning alone, sometimes, I ask myself why? why me Lord? the cup is too heavy for me to bear and ghouls have made my mind an open playing field and I cant break free at times I wake up and its gone I smile and dress up- try to think normally, eat and sleep but itchy insomnia rages on my skin beads of sweat and shaking, my mouth is dry I am afraid, frightened and I cower OCD is crunching my life, slowly and sadly noone knows...they just dont know why I say 'off' things sometimes they suppose its the preoccupation of a busy mind, and busy I am wallowing, silently, stewing in the prison it seems there is no escaping this
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Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 1:55 AM UTC
O.C.D
Dealing with OCD is like losing your mind, You can be in a room full of people, yet all alone, Noone can ever know when the horrible thoughts will come and what they will be you just feel a buzz, a hum, a drone in your head and you try to block it out but like Sony Xperia apps running in the background, they are there, infernal consuming the bandwidth of your soul there is a fine line between delusion and sanity a clutching at straws, a search for help pleas and pleas fall not on deaf ears but endure it you must until it runs its course tunnelling on, pushing you to the edge straddling the fine line buoying bobbing, dancing, fleeting- drowning you in its wake as you gasp and gasp OCD is horrible and misunderstood why it hit me, I know not- when it came part of me, I never agreed I just woke up arrested, paralysed by the most unutterable thoughts... I suspect it happened when I met the thin woman with the one eye- I have known no peace since then Paranormal paranoia rules my brain and I am mooted, glued in the vile filth of guilt, shame, anger, helplessness- like a generator running on fuel, incessant the tyres do not stop burning alone, sometimes, I ask myself why? why me Lord? the cup is too heavy for me to bear and ghouls have made my mind an open playing field and I cant break free at times I wake up and its gone I smile and dress up- try to think normally, eat and sleep but itchy insomnia rages on my skin beads of sweat and shaking, my mouth is dry I am afraid, frightened and I cower OCD is crunching my life, slowly and sadly noone knows...they just dont know why I say 'off' things sometimes they suppose its the preoccupation of a busy mind, and busy I am wallowing, silently, stewing in the prison it seems there is no escaping this
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I'm tunnelling In a downward spiral, Getting deeper than the Scars you left on my heart. Lost afloat on a raft On an ocean of my own tears Led by a misguided attempt. But the blood - It consumes me so Yet it is so mesmerizing. My mind, My own personal time machine In which I find myself trapped In thoughts of you. The thoughts they screech, The noise so piercing It's destructive. Breakout I must. But before I even try - Oblivion beneath me, As I fall. Am I free? These chains still hold me, Imprison me, My vision so fine and sharp Yet still I am misguided. In this raft afloat In the ocean of my mind, That you created. Slowly crumbling apart Like everything great, it falls. But alas hope, The light it calls! Until I realise My only escape As I slowly drift away.
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Aug 2, 2014
Aug 2, 2014 at 1:30 AM UTC
You're the Ocean of My Mind
Artificial city-dwellers Discard all humanity Carbon fired tin cans Pierce the serenity. Anonymous collisions Fifty floors below Each passer by a stranger You will never know. Pedestrians, travellers And their vehicles Droplets in a river, Altering the tidal flow. Irrigation passages Absorb the elements Hedge fund panellists, Bankers and workers flee. Eye rolling baby boomers Sit, tutting one by one. Nervous millennials adorned In clothes for moths to eat. Breaking point carriages Century old tunnelling A lone foot tapping And quiet page turning. Brakes hit the track Piercing the murmur Eighty jarred necks External motion blur. Sliding carriage doors A not-so-subtle beep Dust kicked from dawn Falls onto the city streets. Blue tower inhabitants Busting out of the seams Water molecules collide But nothing sinks the fleet. Smartly suited eye-darters Push and pull for space Rolling up the banks Humanity erased again. I settle on the brickwork Until the storm retreats Circadian commuters Run to rest their feet. A few lonely meanders remain Wondering down the beach Forlorn festivies fog over Swinging shop-signs squeak.   As the lighting rig descends And once blue ceiling stains The beige brickwork turns red The high tide admits defeat. Pink light turns to navy blue A faint moonbeam lights the sky Obscured by one cloud then a few Vague incandescence frames the scene. The streetlights flicker overhead One worn out passenger now leaves Shrouded, cold, hungry and fulfilled; Abandonment for some is peace.
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May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 at 12:34 PM UTC
Kenopsia
Artificial city-dwellers Discard all humanity Carbon fired tin cans Pierce the serenity. Anonymous collisions Fifty floors below Each passer by a stranger You will never know. Pedestrians, travellers And their vehicles Droplets in a river, Altering the tidal flow. Irrigation passages Absorb the elements Hedge fund panellists, Bankers and workers flee. Eye rolling baby boomers Sit, tutting one by one. Nervous millennials adorned In clothes for moths to eat. Breaking point carriages Century old tunnelling A lone foot tapping And quiet page turning. Brakes hit the track Piercing the murmur Eighty jarred necks External motion blur. Sliding carriage doors A not-so-subtle beep Dust kicked from dawn Falls onto the city streets. Blue tower inhabitants Busting out of the seams Water molecules collide But nothing sinks the fleet. Smartly suited eye-darters Push and pull for space Rolling up the banks Humanity erased again. I settle on the brickwork Until the storm retreats Circadian commuters Run to rest their feet. A few lonely meanders remain Wondering down the beach Forlorn festivies fog over Swinging shop-signs squeak.   As the lighting rig descends And once blue ceiling stains The beige brickwork turns red The high tide admits defeat. Pink light turns to navy blue A faint moonbeam lights the sky Obscured by one cloud then a few Vague incandescence frames the scene. The streetlights flicker overhead One worn out passenger now leaves Shrouded, cold, hungry and fulfilled; Abandonment for some is peace.
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They watch my lavish fall Hungrily Lips gnashing together Grinding teeth in anticipation Its the only sound I hear As I slip through the abyss I blame them partly With their eyes scanning upwards Fixated on the throne Waiting for the day They’ll look down on the rest of us Now today has arrived And they marvel in what I’ve become What I've lost Who am I now Surely not this creature Cracked mask on a sunken ship Blood streams from my temples Tormenting thoughts cannot be contained In the mere encompass of my mind They hug the curve of my cheekbones And slip on my lower lip Inviting me to speak them Inviting me to scream them All while the parasite keeps digging Tunnelling deeper and deeper Up the underbelly of my wrist
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Apr 27, 2020
Apr 27, 2020 at 1:11 AM UTC
Lavish
This far divided land Where the rice grows free Has always had corrupt men Stopping their life's dreams It's in their veins It's not that easy To make it flow on out For a thousand years The same has been Even when a million men Wearing blue denim jeans Came marching in To change our ways It's not what this is all about While the people we trust Pop out of man-made holes And look like they've been Tunnelling like moles Where the enemy lines Have stood for a thousand years During the day We're all so polite But in the night We all have to go and fight The un-invited western men Always seem to lose sight Their communist fears Were ingrained in their mothers womb And will always end in tears Where the streets smell of Pho As you pass on by And if looks could **** If you dare to say hi The aromatic love incense Wafts in the fog filled air Where the market crowds come And traders buy and sell The lonely planet guides Write of this unusual smell The local giggles should tell you That you don't really belong there So goodbye Hanoi This time we can't ignore the flack I'm going home And I ain't ever coming back My wife is waiting To mend me back in one piece We've had that awful feeling Since it all became so fierce I want to head home so bad Now they've invaded our embassy When they don't want our help for a truce And it doesn't bring the change That the westerners wanted to produce So just leave it in the hands of ones own chosen destiny.
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Sep 10, 2019
Sep 10, 2019 at 5:33 PM UTC
Goodbye Hanoi
I know the distance between us are ivory tip into an ebony bone still my blood boils over red as my heart, tunnelling through the night seeking the soul who ignited the light.
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Nov 1, 2024
Nov 1, 2024 at 5:55 PM UTC
The old familiar 👹
Just the upper torso of dunes waving back to us where we walk all hymn: the sea, 7ish, and ourselves the sun; going slow echoes of sea birds tunnelling above the sea always near home.
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Jun 5, 2013
Jun 5, 2013 at 9:19 AM UTC
There abouts
From the warren I view the world; From the warren I venture timidly, Ready to rush back to its relative security. It's not my warren, but I'm comfortable - Well, not exactly comfortable, but secure. Made not for me, although it has a familiar scent; A temporary sanctuary - a base from which to venture forth. And from within its warm depths I've furthered an internal warren, Full of rooms connected by labyrinths Of hallways still tunnelling unheeded Into a myriad mysterious locations: Twisting, turning, looping, surprising, revealing. Both the warren I inhabit and the warren I've developed Help to cement this reality; Help to appease; Allow me a freedom to explore my environs; Explore local watering holes and those further afield; Explore inner landscapes, disconnected and relevant.
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Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014 at 5:04 AM UTC
Warren View
I leave the comfort of the school, I drift down to Dun Laoghaire pier, And pass the lovers holding hands, Or sneaking sips of bargain beer, And I approach my destined ship - The station always holds the key, To get a train so I can start The journey home to Delgany. It soon creeps forward from the dark - A worm emerging from a peach, Gliding past the moonlit sea Stroking the shores of Killiney beach. It misses the seals in Sandycove, Tunnelling through the Dalkey hill, Approaching Greystones but not before Bray, Killiney and Shankill. It chunders through the tunnels vast, The sea breeze freezing up the carriage. The light shines brightest when I leave - The moon and grass make quite a marriage, And the stars do wonders to the trees, Who stand bare, posing, just for me, While I crunch through their pile of leaves On my way home to Delgany.
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Nov 15, 2016
Nov 15, 2016 at 8:05 AM UTC
Autumn Nights
A bed of a lad in A lad in a bed of creased sheets catching crumpling dreams as the night falls apart, I'd better start something or better to be snoozing? Okay It's Friday Friday it's okay and two sachets of sugar with one spoon of instant, it smells hot and tastes sweet My eye's full of glue and my head's a marshmallow, the day ahead looks so deep and my breathing is shallow, Nobody says, poor fellow.
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Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 at 12:02 AM UTC
Tunnelling up
You know what? One of my biggest fears is… Drowning. Suffocating from all the Pain and suffering. Struggling to breathe. Struggling to move. Struggling to stay alive. You know that moment When you hold that weapon In your hand, and you just Think to yourself, No one would even know That you’re gone. No one will ever understand How much it hurts. My vision is tunnelling My mind is echoing My body is collapsing I isolate myself from friends I have no motivation to go to school I can barely get out of bed, Let alone go to sleep.
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Mar 28, 2018
Mar 28, 2018 at 6:44 PM UTC
Drowning...
I’ll pour this vial of pills to fall through my neck to push out my navel so I can grow up and out I’ll watch it all dissolve in my hands watch my world dissolve in my hands so it can finally be mine something entirely mine And as I’m standing on the big blue planet eyes tunnelling into the moon I will drape the reticulum over some other creature and no more burden shall I be lying deep in the milky sea
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Jan 15, 2017
Jan 15, 2017 at 3:14 AM UTC
The Reticulum
Tunnelling through the debris, and humbled by the degree... I stumble into the Truth and the greed crumbled to the decree. Reach out and touch somebody’s hand for serendipity? Teach now or get ****** into someone’s quicksand for showing sympathy."It comes with the territory", the words of a loner… "It comes with telling a story", the words of a Lodestar!
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May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 at 5:31 AM UTC
Lodestar
I am female I keep boys under my skin they think they think they’re right deep under my skin but my skin is deeper than the fault lines that carry love waves and I like it that way - You know me, you love me you care for me sometimes - I do too, humouring those that are lost in my flesh now swimming in my blood stream tunnelling through my veins when really I just want to rip apart yours
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Oct 19, 2014
Oct 19, 2014 at 2:46 PM UTC
I am female
The walls are Closing in The silence Is unbearable My breaths Come faster Chest heaving Wild eyes Unfocused Nails Digging into my skin Trying To ground me Tunnelling vision Scattered Afraid Help Losing strength I can’t breathe Panic Deafening silence Desperately grasping For anything To ground me Pain Nails digging into skin Teeth Biting my lip Grounded Focused Breathing Lost -jt
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Sep 16, 2019
Sep 16, 2019 at 6:05 AM UTC
panic