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  She could feel the tightness in her gut. In her shoulders. In her hands and cramping in her legs. She raised her head to the sky. Breathe in. Send your breath flying back up. Fling it against the highest stuff. It was cold, so she could see her breath pluming, too slow to go far.  She breathed out again, slow, expecting the cloud this time. She looked down. It was steep. Almost a sheer drop. It would be absolute insanity to run down it. Suicidal.  She breathed in, rib cage trembling on the inhale, then steady on the exhale. The smooth side of a building streaming down. Sheer chrome, nothing but lights below. Every muscle in her body was taut and twitching, and it was not because she was here. She was alive. She had life? To possess. She was living? To do. To do stuff in time. To move.  She was relaxed. And every muscle in her body was twitching. It was a very steep drop.  Breathe. Quick. Up hair, over helmet.  Down.  All she could see was the roa...
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Deep Stars

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      Boom-bah-ya, the girls in sparkly sleek tights with with holes out over their behinds stood on platforms in Mortimus plaza, and cigarette smoke wafted up from beneath them.      But here, here there wasn't anything but the stars. Very peaceful, very bright.      Boom-bah-ya. The women slid down slithering poles and the men glanced up at them as they walked into work.      But the stars were yellow, not white.  At least he thought they were. Not cold, but warm. And set in a velvet navy-colored universe.      Boom-bah-ya. The buildings were all chrome and shiny, and the light glinted off them and the curbs and the glass and the girls until you could only ever see one thing at a time, eyes flashing faster than the light, never able to take in more than a pinpoint's worth.     But the universe here looked less like a universe and more like the sky should, he thought. Close and encircling and love...
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Nietzsche

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  Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you.               -Friedrich Nietzsche      Battle not with monsters, lest you become one.       Battle not the foul goblins and demons of our world, neither the ones within nor the ones without. Step aside for them, Nietzsche, let them pass and do as they please. Watch them as they creep over the cliffs, and do not dare go near the edge, for the unknown holds naught but terror, and there is no light by which we can pierce the blackness.      I don't think so Nietzsche. What a sweet little notion this is, how delicate and fragile your soul must be, for it to be so easily overwhelmed by only the edge.  You don't seem to understand life. You don't seem to understand what a fine line it is the everyday liver walks. You must be tired, Nietzsche, always running, running, running, never sto...
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A Confession

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A confession, A digression, A lesson in pain, Wisdom my mistress goes hard with the grain Of a straight birch from the yard, And by her I've made This little book on the table; It tells a dark-joying fable  Full of shadows and grit And heavy-laden wit And a bright, bright light  And a laughing, singing fight And a steel never broken, Truth's true token  Of Love against lying,  And look, the darkness is flying.
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Everynight Halloween

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Black, burn, Twist, turn  Back and forth, Nothing worth The twist and the crack, The writhing pain, The black at my back And the derailed train Of my thoughts As I prance wide-eyed and wild  Lost as a child In a pumpkin-patch of briars As the moon climbs higher  Than common sense, and clear The smog makes a blear Of a mockery to haunt, To make my face gaunt  As my eyes flicker back  And the crack of the briar  Makes me flinch like a fire At the tip of the candle. Slow-drip burn, senses run slower Under the darkness of the Sower In the interrupted deafening of this silent night.
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The Heavens Declare the Glory of God

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The heavens declare the glory of God, and God Your glory gives me peace.  The heavens declare the glory of God, and there isn't anything that can fill in the cracks of my heart the way Your soft feathering clouds do as they slowly draw themselves across a gray-blue sky. They make the peace of my heart unassailable, impenetrable, where it sits above the sidewalk; at least for a little while.            Lord let it not be a little while.  I smell ozone, and it sends my blood singing, and a grin spreads as my eyes are filled with Zephyr-lights. My lungs expand, and with this laughter I could smile in the face of any trouble, Lord with this laughter I could spit in the Devil's very eye as he cast his gaze up through the earth. The breath of the sky's far rumbling fills me, and I feel the need to use it.           Please Lord, let this energy split my bones for the rest of eternity.  Lord my soul flies for ...
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Little Girl Don't You Worry

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  Little girl don’t you worry, though the story is stained, there will always be rivers and the wind’s spacious shivers and creeks bubbling gently ever on.  Little girl don’t you worry, though there’s bitter in the berry, there will always be blooms smiling white and tiny on the hillside, basking in the sun’s soft laughter as it warms.  Little girl don’t you worry, though the snow ever flurries, it leaves the edges soft and silent and the fields blending gently with the sky.  Little girl don’t you worry, small mice will always scurry and ants always hurry and black birds dot the aether like a painting of the sea.  Little girl don’t you worry, though black is cracking souls and snakes are staining worlds, your mother is home now with the wind and the washing and your father is waiting at a station, waiting for a bus that takes him home to you.
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