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On some planet afar
there brewed once an immortal storm
thousands of miles and years along
of fire and dust and its chemical brothers
that did never stop
and did never calm
 
Such storms as these exist throughout the galaxies
and inside each
one troubled mind
one conscious particle of dust
who finds he falters at every instruction
finds all the controls to be misnumbered
he can't help but suffer feelings of inconsequention
shook and twisted against his intention
he finds that free will has been misrepresented
 
Surrounded at all times by darkness and chaos
for one conscious particle there are no safe planets.
 
Perhaps we'll do better with an Earthly example?
Here, yes: A lovely girl.
A human mess
Can't get it (herself) together
Will likely find her youth wasted,
Her innocence taken
Her soul restless.
Will likely die of deep infection.
why?
These girls with planetary minds now carve themselves with tribal marks
in their parents' bathrooms , in their young apartments
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      I can see the smoke rising up from here. The water goes back
  keep my head down, there's nothing green about this plant.
    My hands burn, this water rush, I feel so quiet, I am thinking of
                  you, little girl. By Nishitaga hospital who smiled at me one day.
 
     If I stop to think panic will rise, the numbers don't lie.
   such that none can survive.
        The air is a sinister assassin.
 
        I can touch this storm. my healing hands will keep you safe and warm, little girl.
 
                        i was never made of much in this life.
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