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What do you think of the man peeing, the ever-shitting mouse? Finding meaning in killing and cleaning house. Sal quit school, your lover stops writing. Eternity's waiting, a lazy-eyed tiger. Or everything's cool even the fighting. The weather is perfect for swimming or dying. Physical dizziness, mental uneasiness. Isn't exercise the best blood pressure medicine? Universally sad about my mortality but also glad to be leaving the party. The noise was incessant, success inconsistent. The demands of my neighbors, employers, persistent. Belonging is longing for complete solitude. Seas, odysseys the loneliness of being spouse. Rain of April, rain of August writing of it dry as dust. What's my reason, rhyme? Pass the time, pass the season. If you're alone as you get, why are you crying? Hold steady until a tsunami. Then swim if you can. Don't gulp. Hit in the head by speeding debris. Couldn't be helped.

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