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Black Diamonds and the Benefits of Ylang Ylang

"Black Diamonds and the Benefits of Ylang Ylang"
The prescription was to write black diamonds against the pale antidote cutting glass precisely, words gargled slowly she bled diagnosis Jung and the benefits of Ylang Ylang Feeling all the colours inside of Black A body of work Arms arrested legs spread against the white board Byzantine Blue (LadyLabyrinth/ 2020)
“Colors” / Beck https://youtu.be/WRCA_Fo0rWA
"In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europe has endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form." Marcel Proust “I'll find you and go right through walls we made...”
http://www.elizabethmoon.com/writing-depression.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cananga_odorata The name ylang-ylang is derived from the Tagalog term for the tree, ilang-ilang - a reduplicative form of the word ilang, meaning "wilderness" LYRICS/ "Colors", Beck https://genius.com/Beck-colors-lyrics

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Date: 10/17/2020 4:07:00 PM
dance? ;)
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/17/2020 5:08:00 PM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/go_bang_1247665
Date: 10/17/2020 12:44:00 PM
Through it all the brilliance still shines bright
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/17/2020 3:37:00 PM
“The ordinary black diamond is not greatly unlike black sealing wax. Opinions differ as to its virtues as a gemstone.” A dime a dozen apparently.
Date: 10/17/2020 8:58:00 AM
It was the best of time and the worst of times...Charles Dickens
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/17/2020 9:21:00 AM
“These bastards only understand one language.” — Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders; or - “Did you know that madness sets you free? Otherwise, we’re just peasants obeying the law.”

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