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I shall embrace my wraith lest my soul quiver. I have no voice: you slit my throat. I have no vision: you slashed my eyes. I have no touch: you abscised my limbs. Blind was I for your blindness and deaf for your deafness. God’s consort were you: entrenched in delirium and heedless to my pleas of reconciliation. My veins were your map of victimhood, and my heart, your confessional; yet I was the fatality in this cataclysm — nay, abomination — we christened <i>love</i>. I bore witness to your plummet into the fathomless bowels of disillusionment. Akin to my dismembered corpse are your otherworldly predilections; your reason is the m

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outhpiece for your nonage. A beast of burden have I become, unbeknownst to me: my reality that none can gainsay. I died. You killed me. We killed us, and our laurels have withered. An enchantress are you, a necromancer; may your mana never call to my spirit, for in my demise is your contentment — rife with fancy. Caustically will I grin at your obtuseness. Gods, too, die; veins, too, dissever. Thus, I say unto you: awaken from your reverie. Look upon the rose and cypress and aster and iris; watch them solely as them. You pitiful woman. I gave you sight; yet you failed to see. Behold the future you have wrought.</p></article></body>

April Fools | Episode 23

My Morning Routine in Haiku

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Making my coffee Letting the dogs out to smell Every day starts thus

Coffee in its mug Dogs asleep on the carpet Sitting by the fire

iPad on my lap Medium at the ready Challenge accepted

A haiku. Wait! What? I don’t remember how to Google rescues me

My coffee gets cold As I ponder syllables I’m officially done

Time to stand up now My butt incredibly sore Movement the answer

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