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Deadened Frisson Explains

Absent Motility Against Staid Inertia impossible to describe listlessness bedeviling this body electric aye attest motivation to counter glumness seizes motility temporarily to stave off staid purposeless at best, yet aware poetic obfuscation chest barely delineates fierce hopelessness assailing me, when'r awake and/or at everest feeding melancholy feedback loop sparring against faintest momentum - writhing psyche, asper an unwelcome guest emotional friction bringing motionlessness, where lunging futility summoning ability to muster joie de vivre defeated willpower no matter mental health propped up with pharmacological medications prescribed by Doctor George Adams be hest, yet tis NOT suicide, but general malaise as if poison (or stung by a scorpion) jest permeates thy being sparking existential angst hoop fully communicating figurative soffits facilitating emotional bulwark lest ye coon sitter this lix spittled chap messed up in the head, but also that empty nest syndrome - a bird den, and nefarious pest disallowing merrily rowing my boat subjected to turbulence that doth wrinkle space/time continuum quest punctuating any attempt to take fig yurt heave Newtonian rest without being assailed of drab quotidian predictability re: envious papa towards daughters adventurous lives he rejoices (albeit vicariously) respective lives where offspring lasso lassitude, viz both their electric kool aid acid test how fate didst in vest waning wily woebegone zest!

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