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Evasion.

Incorrigible landscape, that cannot be recreated. There is no copy and paste here. Ticking underneath my ribcage, a sleeping dragon awakens. Beating to the rhythm of birdsongs, one misstep could collapse a civilization. A glance mistaken capable of crashing stock markets. Your guess as good as mine what could make it plummet. Sending shockwaves through nations, like a sonic boom. Tremors that create rifts in the Earth, like natural disasters. Corrugated cardboard heart of mine, often recycled, occasionally left behind. One wrong move and limbs go flying, splattering the air, like the paint of possessed artists. A twisted scientist, he is a tortured genius. His every project, government green-lit. Imagine such power, the kind to be marvelled. With enough force to crumble mountains; one snap of his fingers and the world is reduced to shrapnel. Dust clouds the sky reducing vision. There is no clarity here, it vanished like a magician. Sometimes he is the c...

Saboteur.

Whirling in circles, thoughts race through my mind like I'm stuck in the spin cycle. I thought I knew better, believed I had learned from this. Yet here I am again turning, and twisting my words, might as well take a book and hollow out its pages– rendering them useless. Why do I do this. Repeatedly committing to this insanity that robs me of peace. Oh man, why does it have to be charcoal filtered; it stings like lemon juice in fresh splinters. Paper cuts on my fingertips that you drown in overproof whiskey. I hear a fizzing before everything fades to black then blue. Is this the brand new me or a recycled carbon copy? A never before seen silhouette or the same old ghost I used to be. I just can't keep up, racing against the clock like it means anything. Progress will not be forced, it cannot be reproduced. All the plastic in the ocean, and I'm still more artificial. Will this old, rust coloured bicycle chain wear away so it finally can be...