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on forcing passion.

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littleblueraccoon

Published: Aug 28, 2016

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_{imagine trees of tangerines,
heavy sagging suns on all the branches.
rip one down, introduce it to
vivisection
(though dead or alive, it
never cries out),
and
squeeze
until pulp like entrails
forces itself between your dripping fingers.

stare blankly at the mess
and attempt to clean it,
succeed only in
staining your clothes golden.
work the designs against your skin
until the mistakes become tattoos
and the rinds before you look
less like refuse and more like
fresh-hatched eggshells.

as the morning scent stings your senses,
reach up.

don't look,
just touch, and
rip down another.

and another.

and another.}

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_{and by that I mean writing when you feel like you can't or don't want to and that is exactly what I was doing when I wrote this.

hot off the presses my friends c: I was actually okay with how this turned out. I think it's because it felt so forced that I was surprised it wasn't worse?

anyway.}