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I Don'T Like Riddles

The waters of Lethe the tattooists ink Tracing over memory Replacing with fear of unknowable To have forgotten On the dead breath of terror Recognition sparse Piecing together a different picture That may indeed be the truth For what is felt May crush what was known Bathe in the waters, consume Wash away not memory but Residual fear Distrust Knowledge of never knowing Don't soothe me, I should be wide awake On the tattooists chair Leave me a note on my arm "Trust no-one"

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