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The Companionable Ills

The companionable ills, short heavy breaths with which I force the wind into my blood, chill and whisper- that I am not 'complete', that my youth has 'run dry', and yet this poison lets me the world unfolding with unforeseeable possibilities: the jut skulls of mountains, fields of ripening wheat, ubiquity rising like a dove above the landscape and thundering down along the troubled feet of the city, I am at home with my lonely sorrow.

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