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  November 2022     1 year ago

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Disruption

The TV is an enemy I’m keeping close

I haven’t used my brain in weeks
For anything considered useful

I’m a cat bed, a pin cushion, a panacea of toxic trials that sour everything I taste
Fight, rest, recover, repeat

Giving in to weakness...

– by Jessica Waterhouse

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My Music is stuck
in
a
LOOP
Like Beethoven ranting
half deaf
His 5th
da da da da da da da da

I play
The same g minor sad chords
No uplifting chorus
No bridge to cut
the
tension
Angsty
Wordless
Beast

My fingers cannot
Will...

– by Jessica Waterhouse

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