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The Treachery of Images Magritte - this is not a pipe -

     take your thoughts
        stuff them into a non thing
  the thoughts 
     and the nothingness 
        breathed in 
    and out
         expelled to travel 
    permeate fabrics
       cling to skin
          it could all be so wonderful 
  but for the toxicity 
      I'll take the option 
   not to think
    not to breathe
yet ticker taping across my mind is
                                  'this is not a thing'
   you can't catch the travelling letters 
         of the ticker tape
      so like the damaging thoughts 
  that sail through
           almost gliding 
   not at all causing alarm until :thought:

         back to breathing
it wasn't optional after all

     if I am not my thoughts
         don't control my breath
  what does compel me?
             draws to suspend disbelief 
       coaxes into ways of things
      drop it all
let it fall to the ground 
         listen for the crash of the real/reel
    or the silence of the false storm
               maybe forget these words
      see the pipe
order one
         in a reality of the tangible
      it is the shinier option
                     after all

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