we must remain we must remain <font color="#830303"><b>re</b></font> must remain. we must remain. we [[must]] remain.

<u>coming to terms</u>\n\n—minus <font color="#830303">a lawyerly term sheet</font>\n\n(with all the debits and credits and loans made in [[bad faith]]… plus a little vig for lubricant)\n\nto guide us

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come to me,\n\nTENTENHAWITHA,\n\ncome to me and sing with me this song.\n\nwe bawl and brawl\n\nover different <b>terms</b>\n\nfor keeping what is [[ours]].

<font color="#830303">[[coming to terms]]</font>\n\nwith whose cause was \n\n<strike>just-er</strike>,\n\n<b><i>jucier</i></b>,\n\nmore favourable

<img src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1499652848871-1527a310b13a?auto=format&fit=crop&w=967&q=80" width="500" height="300" alt="Two foxes">\n\n\nfaith\n\n\n[[i dunno,]]

there is \n\n<font color="#830303"><b>s i n</b></font>\n\nin my heart. there is\n\n<font color="#830303"><b>e v i l</b></font>\n\nin the world.\n\n\n[[come to terms with that.]]

co-term,\n\nintern,\n\nreturn.\n\n[[go back]] to where you came from.

we had no choice about the <b>terminology</b>, about the <b>phraseology</b>, certainly not about the <b>[[ontology]]</b>.

co-term,\n\nintern,\n\nreturn.\n\n[[go]] back to where you came from.\n\n

no [[choice]] about terminology\n

for [confinement],\n\nclarity and consensus.\n\n[[purity]],\n\nthe wolf-lambs bleat

coming to terms becomes <b>telling a joke</b> coming to terms to becomes [[missing the joke]].\n\n<audio autoplay loop>\n <source src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_p2znknIbzM1tudnq9o1.mp3" type="audio/mp3">\n</audio>

we must remain pure, \nwe must remain unsullied,\nwe must remain pure\n[[we]] must remain\n\n

to the\nCR<i>EAT</i>OR\nor\n\n<i>G</i>OD\nor\n\n<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Statue_of_Poseidon%2C_God_of_the_Sea_4890830476.jpg" width="500" height="300" alt="Two foxes">\n\nWHAT-EVER BEING\nor\n\nLIFE-FORCE\nor\n\nGHOST\n\nabandonded us, \n\nmore [[teleologically]] aligned

no choice about terminology

co-term,\n\nintern,\n\nreturn.\n\ngo [[back]] to where you came from.

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the WORLD SPIRIT? ferchrissake.\n\nfor <i>my</i> sake.\n\nor maybe [[MY SPIRIT]]?\n\n<img src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1504701954957-2010ec3bcec1?auto=format&fit=crop&w=2167&q=80" width="500" height="300" alt="Two foxes" opacity:".5" filter: "alpha(opacity=50)">

each adjective has such <i>sharp</i>\n<i>sharp</i>\n<i>sharp</i>\nedges,\n\n<font color="#830303"><i>s l i c i n g</i></font> off\n\nf i n gers\na n d\nto e s\na nd\nentire\nli m b s\n\nin its [[quest]]

<strike>we must remain. we must remain.</strike>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe must remain <font color="#830303">dead.</font>