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Ennui

protracted stitches
circumference of each orbit
abrade motives

time chewed
and spat impiously

Descartes cursed
banality of insights

this abscessed “being”

Abdicates

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Comments

are you a nurse? like the 'ab' alliteration, although abcessed seems too graphic, surely your not that bad?
'the greatest disease is unhappiness'

regards
ross

Idle hands find light work.
Yet an Idle mind sometimes races too fast for logic to take place.
Hope you didn't drop a stitch there.
Then I noticed that you retreated and gave up.
Such is a mind that cannot think of something to do, when all is going on.. lol.
Take care, an interesting write, Yours Ian.T

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There are a million reasons to believe in yourself,
So find more reasons to believe in others..

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