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The State of Things
An excerpt from Extween of Between
and
knowledge of chaos ferments in a still of stone
as water separates surface
and
retention is only wrought by society-
balancing in freedom
can
be tricky amid this sickness
reality
nothing is
everything
and
everything is nothing
if
peace does not exist.
means available
means to a profit climb
means to be superior the
means letting others fall wayside on
so the cliff overlooking more rocks
turns to brambles
and
thorns and clocks
brings
violence
erupts as we bath in the blood
sworn to protect
but forgetting the mud-
it coats our shoes
on
this desolate walk---
lost as a whole
others are
afterthoughts
pray on the less-er to raise that percentage point
nothing left of conscious except the numb
and we continue to progress
to
regress in community---
lapping at the ledge of universal clarity
Lake Alice, Gainesville Florida
