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Stave from all words (you breathe just like)
You Stave from all words (you speak just like)
You Stave from all words (you stare just like)
Just stare
like someone’s watching (you breathe just like)
do they see me like I see them (you speak just like)
you care just like
you don't
you don't
concrete means unfold as this chapters ending
your deaf intentions an alcove
in there no meaning.
you turn the knife quick
on these battered arms
I'd never hurt you
what is this worth?
what is this worth?
the MRIs back
I've made my bed
the blueprints dotted
you erase first
why do you erase first?
gently persuaded by isolation
self effacing to tethered ends
disappointment in details
beseeched from one end
vague reminders there's no one left
there's nothing left
I imagine a day in a white
am I beside, or aside ? —in the closet
a dress hangs like a skeleton,
too spineless — to come out
recount the words (never a straight shot)
what was I worth (murmur you honesty under your breath)
a disappointment and a placeholder
a disappointment and a placeholder

tired and vain attempts and I am exiled
they rely on you as you try to maintain your image
tired and vain attempts and we are exiled
Intentions corrosive, we splinter under pressure
my back is against the beams
and the window breaks
I retract the hand that holds this up
I retract the hand that holds this up
just to see
if you'll
save yourself
you just save yourself
as it falls
save yourself
and it falls on me
it falls on me
backbreaking, it falls
it falls
it falls
vague reminders there's nothing
your image pirouettes in all photographs
vague reminders there's no one left
hold them in judgement, as battered backs turn
words dance desperate
day in white
words dance desperate
day in white
words dance desperate
hands intertwined
words dance desperate, murmured
I retract the hand that holds this up (save yourself)
I retract the hand that holds this up (as it falls, it falls)
I retract the hand that holds this up (save yourself)
I retract the hand that holds this up (as it falls)
and it falls on me.

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from the cold promise of uncertainty, released April 2, 2020

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