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PAIGE
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All of my phone notes
in a row.
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Marching for an instagram post kills solidarity. You preach whats 'right' by the masses then go home and live hypocritically. In the face of conflict you cower in fear as your shallow convictions wilt. Shuffle back and forth to nowhere with your eyes closed because it's less painful that way. I hear your complaints but when I look you're still. What matters most is either everything or nothing. Is what matters most everything or nothing? The artist has become the art. The name has become the thing. Art swallowed by people and things swallowed by names. What is contemporary culture but blown up busy bees buzzing about in regressing tainted goals made impure by false opinions? When you define me you negate me. Post impassioned words as a coward dressed nobly. Bravery went down with chivalry and all that's left is frightened mice huddled together for comfortable warmth. I see your mouth twitch, I hear noises exit, but you say nothing. I couldn't care less about fashion. Your entertainment is a murderer; you praise him looking up while the blood on his hands is still warm. When did the gap between seeming and being become such an abyss? Where will I end up when I go out of style? The happiness I bought isn't strong enough; doctor, will you get me some more? "Treating life as if it were nothing but cracking nuts."

2019_my apologies to great questions
for small answers.
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brown paper bag, dripping
pools of powdered paint





no shortage of phone notes here
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Learn that awe asks nothing of you. NON OMNIS MORIAR (I shall not wholly die). The thought of all the grass blown over to one side hurts me. Bystanders kill; inaction is poison. Because nothing ever feels bad once you learn what that emotion is capable of. “Go where you feel most alive.” Bliss to put your hand upon millennia as upon wax. Why theres all this space inside me I don’t know. And then in your room I fell to my knees embracing this mist perfection of frost (How lovely you are!) this smothering turbulence—What were you thinking? ‘Be sensible’ lost! What’ll it be today folks, rage or humor? Tragedy or comedy?

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current
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Florida, 2015
Arching back and a million dots of heaven a million shots of shivering spears shaped to cross the neighbors…
