´wiggleyourrootsjosh:treescanwahhlk!´’¨

by Remedios Varo

i have been watching you for some time now
you seem to get lost in all the roads you’ve walked before
lids cover the eyes, salt covers the tongue
"there are eight legs but they won’t work"
well, here’s the catch:
they are not made for walking
you are supposed to swim
flow
surrender

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 (this is a wall, a wall made of, um, glass, yes, and you can see from up there, but words can't fully be read or heard from the other side)
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b. i don’t understand any of this
j. they’re just a bunch of words, son
b. words are cages,, i’m living in one, yeah, i’m living in the zoo,, i don’t want the 5PM meat, j, i want out
j. then break free
b. but how?
j. you know how, i think what you meant to ask is how much pain will you have to endure,, you know those stretch marks i have in my back from growing so fast?

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time has passed, and j. is no longer having a conversation with b.
instead, b. is having a conversation with a mirror, a mirror named molly
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b. why is the line being drawn, huh?
and jeez, man, by no other than me
no more fucking circles
n mre
they don’t have a finish line!

it’s a play
but it ain’t fun
i look around and see people believing the lies, the lives
their own, and others’
i am, damn
damned

brothers, sisters, son
get your freedom back
at whatever cost necessary
stretch marks, yes

but, you see, no one hears me
i barely listen

silence

ghosts are following me, they are following us, and they make us hide in corners or in someone’s arm, in someone’s warmth
i’d rather die of frostbite

i need to rest
i don’t understand
do you?

silence

but it’s okay, i’d rather die of frostbite
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i have been watching you for some time now
breathe