Thursday, April 16, 2020

Sometimes It Is Unreal


our sanctions or boundaries or circumference.
those tender lies we’re desperate to discover.
our bodies needing substance or devastation
if but too close to wheeze. those views mistook
those values shredded, while it was once our
leading wish: vacuum passion, eloquent
everything or so reserved it felt like winning—
those screams; so sacrilegious or too cultic or
idyllic by experience: to have known life, to
have won trophies, to have become the
valedictorian. our wanderlust souls, or
untrained souls, kneading memories so far
from removing Berlin. but elegant or distinct
while enduring vicariously, born to sin.    


Time was Brief

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