They Are Catching

get out of blood network

How long do you keep pumping them out of your blood through writing,

Only for them to loiter by your veins and come right back in?

What I do

What I do is I compress all the love into a tiny spark

living in the firecracker, ready to take off

what I do is deny my obsession, and the eventual fall

-s's.

Listen to my song It plays a violin And it tries to take you away from me Darker than the storm I once let in It plays in my mind softly

-s’s.

The Face of Another (1996) Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara

the cartoons and the movies have no wide-eyed gazes to look back at them. no light of day to shine across the dusty screen. abandoned life, abandoned dreams. left lonely and hidden beyond care. what does it all mean. in this ghost town.

-s's.

just take me, then

take me, then

Don’t ask me when

And all I wanted,

Was the dime of a dozen

Fully brazen, fire in the making

Truly, all I wanted was

Something awaiting

me

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i wanted to go out

And be rebuked

heaven or hell,

whichever one’s got you

tired of noticing the hills, gold over the fields,

I’m tired of noticing that, and all that's real,

your distant breeze, and every little thing

I've been noticing, every little thing, but no one else ever will

they won’t try to, they never will

-s’s.

Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil. But it seems to me that whatever else you do, it’s worth tending to paradise, however you define it and wherever it arises.

— Olivia Laing, from Funny Weather