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split schizoid mission Lifting the mind like a sword counting poets losing self in unsettled love and mysteries plucked off the shelf all the Berlin walls come tumbling down words like dice shaken and thrown the electric black dogs barking call in their ebony crows wings wind their words shocking the lonely on repeat fix mirrored stories touched for a while fingers crack the muse like an egg over easy sticking to your mind, acrid like burnt lemon rind the way you peel an orange each piece a fractured story, you swallow or a never ending tail cacheing cold sharp diamonds in Her wake serpentine on the way home ghosted ghostly bent on another split schizoid mission out in the cold barefeet dance the jig again over burning coals collaborating the others in the mind (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) “Diamond in the Cold” / 3rd Secret https://youtu.be/F1Qj5-Er4V4 "The woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time." collaboration. 1. the action of working with someone to produce something. 2. traitorous cooperation with an enemy. serpentine. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/serpentine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_subgroup https://www.rudraksha-ratna.com/articles/serpentine-stone https://www.healingwithcrystals.net.au/serpentine.html https://thecrystalcouncil.com/crystals/serpentine https://www.firemountaingems.com/resources/encyclobeadia/gem-notes/j532 swallow. 1. to take through the mouth and esophagus into the stomach 2. to envelop or take in as if by swallowing : absorb 3. a small bird with pointed wings and a tail with two points that flies quickly and catches insects to eat as it flies schizoid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-narcissism/202010/what-everyone-ought-understand-about-schizoid-personality https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326262404_Schizoid_personality_disorder_and_gender https://www.bbc.com/news/10154775 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2899997/ https://www.verywellmind.com/schizoid-personality-disorder-2795450 https://wellingtongoose.tumblr.com/post/46290210227/diagnosing-sherlock-schizoid-not-aspergers Virginia. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1017&context=cudp_mono https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/virginia-woolf-suicide-letter/ Sylvia. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349608484_The_Schizoid_Self_-_Narrative_Strategies_in_Sylvia_Plath's_The_Bell_Jar https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/sylvia-plaths-last-letters Anne. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41236308.pdf "The Self in the Poetry of Anne Sexton"/Katherine Frances McSpadden - https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3326&context=luc_diss
"I come like the blind feeling for shelves, feeling for wood as hard as an apple, fingering the pen lightly, my blade. With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made."

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Date: 4/13/2022 8:42:00 AM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/in_a_world_of_princesses_be_a_witch_1447428
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Date: 4/13/2022 7:08:00 AM
"I come like the blind feeling for shelves, feeling for wood as hard as an apple, fingering the pen lightly, my blade. With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made."
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Date: 4/13/2022 6:49:00 AM
"The woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time."
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Date: 4/13/2022 6:46:00 AM
"The Black Art", Anne Sexton, August 1962.
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Date: 4/13/2022 6:46:00 AM
https://allpoetry.com/The-Black-Art
Date: 4/13/2022 6:43:00 AM
"Her Kind", Anne Sexton.
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Date: 4/13/2022 6:43:00 AM
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42560/her-kind
Date: 4/13/2022 3:46:00 AM
"And when the world tells you to lower your head and submit in silence to how things are and always will be, lift your voice instead and sing of how things can and should and will be, because that is why you are here."
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Date: 4/13/2022 3:46:00 AM
"And she will keep coming back to life, over and over again, because beneath the skin of this gentle human, lives a warrior unstoppable."
Date: 4/13/2022 1:13:00 AM
quick fixes. ;)
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Date: 4/13/2022 1:19:00 AM
I was inspired by an ode. It's not in my nature to disappoint.
Date: 4/13/2022 1:12:00 AM
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/3rd-secret-album-kim-thayil-matt-cameron-krist-novoselic-1336127/
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Date: 4/13/2022 1:24:00 AM
Collaboration.

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