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Wake to minor disturbance: cat down fence, lands spine-first on rock. Room dark, pull energy from phone and weather: wet, bright-colored, anonymous herb up from ground. At another window, fig fallen, bust open on the roof of miniature, decorative pagoda. 200mg is really nothing, absorbs easily into fascia and so why not. Walk from the central corridor into neighborhood. Outside debutants, officers, and botanists tend to duties. Objects settle inside and out. No act of observation, many dogs circle at local park. Big wolfish hound, owned, hunting. Thrum of predation, its insistence, bare-faced in the park. Back home: place of bartering, shallow roofing. Walls desperate with portraiture. Not sad—form and failure—actually, very cute. Pause. Adoration origin: a single tooth in front of the rest; smile wide, reassuring. How to explain? Misaligned words innocent, uninformed. Bend the knee, aha! Adoration: stay to become. In the living room: color, line work, attribution to source. Abject on the wall, criticism ever an enactment of self-contempt? Untranslatable hover, out one ear, in the other. Get out! Get out! Get out and work. Day job got a dictionary. A big one. Put it in the center of the table like the internet broke. Godly. Material sent to screens, scanned. Initials anonymize, support very little, attempt to curb mega-arousal by identity capture. After meeting, two lesser minds combine. Hearsay through the floorboards, knowledge revealed at the hour not concealed or completed in secret. Breathe still, stop spiking the rate. Now go. Stroke, flip, land feet above tile T. Push. Dolphin kick once, then twice. Turn. Head chlorinated headache, red away eyes. Asked to be baptized, now this. Back home. Family and privacy, privacy and family: how complete, so who can hear it? Two slats on the fireplace slide, metal scrapes. Sorry, sorry. Floors acclimate to room, room acclimate to floors; redwood without sheen, no gloss to scratch, bolted to subfloor and beyond. Fire goes ape up shaft. Vent expels heat into room of many words. It is not so difficult to ameliorate, charter one letter in front of the next: sensationalized ceremony without face. That is on anger, things as they are. Proceed. Inspirit as you scan. Image, analytic, proper noun count, billboard. Share because unweighted. Actually, to blot out. Shadow away from the wall, bent over. Vocabulary goes on, no one in sight. Politic disposing: CUCK CULTURE, FILES EXPLICIT—WEALTH KILLS MILLIONS—CLOTHES COMPILED INTO PILE SMELL BAD, LOOK TERRIBLE—EVERYTHING IS VERY GOOD NOT BAD WHEN WORKING FOR YOU—PEOPLE EN MASSE PERFORM ADVERTISEMENTS, BECOME PRODUCTS, ARE TAKEN INTERNATIONAL ON ANTI-CLIMATE CAMPAIGN, etc. At the bar, a sign for beer reads: people like it! At night the brain magnifies, shouts: HELICOPTERS ARE CIRCUMSPECT, ELIMINATE IN EAGER. Watch garage light through the night, punish new steward. Very common. Fruit falls again onto hard sediment, cement blocks, decorative pagoda. Insides spread. Scrape and smear. Another morning and so, more testaments.



So good. So original. Will read again and again.