ten minutes is not enough of a phase for me to travel from exceptional student to a skittish nuisance. i’m the opening night for a loop which refuses to unstick from a climate of humid. coffee sweat and salty follicles loosen my hold on a golden cupid. i tan there, underneath a gold tomb tooContinue reading “flip the trend”
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stopwatch counting the seconds
i feel like i’m running out of time, but i don’t yet understand my purpose. there’s a stopwatch counting the seconds; each time i gaze over at its total, i’m reminded of all i haven’t done. this should be motivation, but once in a while it converts to defeat. one allure of lyrics is they’reContinue reading “stopwatch counting the seconds”
beneath
the cold is a brute force of nature. it digs beneath our skins until our entire posture is rigid, shivering like an old Harley to generate heat and stay awake. did you know that before death, there can be euphoric release? it’s like all the rushes and excitements of our lives help us practice forContinue reading “beneath”