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there's something going on here

the gardens smells sweet


oh it looks wonderful

everything is so pristine


but things differ in pictures

it's like a stage, everything is a prop


and the smell creeps up on me

while i sleep a succubus feeds on me


i feel dizzy

i get vertigo in here


let me write that down

hold on where's my pen 


my vision's stained 


by scratched-up glasses

heavy pockets

heavy sockets


wait wait hold on,

my phone my


ok, I'm coming

wait, no no i think i should

stay,


what's changed?


I'm trying to talk to you,

keep talking to me

please keep asking me where i am


what I'm doing


because there's something going on here

because there's something going on here


this ink in my hand

wrapped without plan


but i knew this would happen

what did i say

what did i say i would do?


i remember there was something

there was something


when is it

no no, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 is it 


am i supposed to do something

elsewhere?


what is going on wait hold on

wait,


pull me back

pull me back

vines creeping 

round me back, wrapping themselves around my chest my wrists

pulled back, sucked back

my body is cast


it's not there,

of course it's not what am I saying

this has got to be a joke i can 

walk just as i can

stay,


stay, stay i need to

lay



©2024 by Azra Keskin. 

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