it's a long hard streak
when he kneels
still, symptomatic
they've heard it all
the way
both cry and hit
a fracture that'll cost
your own personal suspicion
(relieved - all the same)
now here they will be still
all the shouts
that stopped
all the talking
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natural impulses
are ritualistically pronounced
of course these tendencies
carry a certain level of expectation
boom-lowering
urge resisting
determined for sure, driven by
fear of ugliness
prevented pleasure too intense
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swiftly dismantling
movements of speech
all the fan mail &
crests, breaking waves
against cold stone
cut off the strings
(with a dead thump)
sensitivity to opinions set in
as soon as
yawning begins
less insolent than everyone else
still has a chance
still has no choice