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remembering the future a circular muscle, tubular imperative, propels internal concoctions a transit from warm inner mulch to outer lucency burbles as traffic empties its gasoline chambers into the atmosphere expanding into gas eight times its liquid weight mutual promise unmet though embedded within our compromised states daily peristalsis regular & rhythmic rates of flow through my riverbank body every highway putting out the fire with gasoline volatility standards lowered in a race to the bought-out hedging bets in the midst of a photochemical frenzy the bottom line, the one on which we all traverse, is as free as the quiet air you breathe horse & sail more prescient than passé in an abundance of sun, wind, absorbent, acidifying, expanding ocean skeletal starfish quiver, melt & pulse scrotal with emissions many-chambered hearts, one-chambered sky behold a dizzying ballad of reckless express until quiet & beauty return to the land |
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immersed in chlorinated water immersed in formaldehyde off-gas immersed in car exhaust immersed in the oxygen produced by oceanic plankton immersed in windy chinook immersed in barbecue aroma immersed in smog immersed in someone’s sneeze immersed in the oxygen produced by cedar immersed in the oxygen produced by fir immersed in the oxygen produced by hemlock immersed in carbon dioxide immersed in the colonial present immersed in loonsong immersed in endocrine disrupting dust immersed in the smell of the ocean immersed in stale air immersed in English immersed in ego-jacking capitalism immersed in thought immersed in ancestral respect, or not immersed in natureculture immersed in electromagnetic fields immersed in gravity immersed in radio waves immersed in multilingual contact zone immersed in transmission frequencies immersed in ultraviolet rays immersed in someone’s perfume immersed in ambient sound immersed in neighbourhood vibe immersed in urban hurry immersed in pedestrian drift immersed in the protocol of sunlight immersed in the irrepressible commons, come on! immersed in q’élstexw |
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