the fear
is a clear aether:
cloying, clinging
like trapped vapor pressing
on my heart with twelve oceans
thoughts: blocks
then grains of peppery static
then stardust: fuzzy logic
my words blur and buzz
like a numb arm on a neon light
sweat evaporates
from me like a desert mirage –
my brain a red anthill,
my mouth breathing instead of my lungs
“my apologies, i just need one
chronic minute, one brief lifetime
for this to pass over”
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