you teach me the ways to read energy in a novel,\nwhere to put punctuation in between the [[censers]] of literature

time whorls through the weft and warp of seasons, of time-knowing where it is [[becoming]] into

and our neighbors [[repair and sleep|2]]

i smell boiling water on your [[tongue]]

to be a room full of abstract [[art]]

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[[i am a state bureaucrat’s office]]

for political lovers, a little utopia sketch

and their loved ones [[repair and sleep|3]]

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i want to find a space with you where our talking can [[repair and sleep]]

illinois used to be full of marshes and forests and has squirrels [[trapped in open spaces]] once closed off

as if you were a martyr or a wheelbarrow full by the assembly of martyrs <<insert "within">>\n\n[[transversal]]<<endinsert>>