these halls are rare everyday halls
wielding pitchfork meant to stick
in our backs,
they draw hot, pink blood,
birth flashes and implant false memories.
this is all you
will ever be
it has been
decided.
be quick on your feet,
we operate in pockets of
immateriality drowning
each moment,
"society is dependent on
ego-protection," she
said to me, as she walked
off the platform into
oncoming trains,
the officer at the scene
told me not to think too
much about it, grasping
my wrist, doctors offered
me pills, wrote my
visions down before
devouring them.
I wiped my shoes at the front door,
faint sounds and echoes in the red brick
alleyway adjacent,
murmurs without time or place,
crumpled soldiers returning from imaginary wars.
Did this happen to you?
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