words cannot describe
Best to become invisible
in times like these.
Everybody knows that.
― Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
my numbness is not
comfortable at all
it is a nondescript void
like a beautiful landscape
hidden by an expanding fog
spreading north & south
and east & west
its deafening denseness
placing a stranglehold
on coherent thought
a lingering listlessness
tearing the world apart
march two thousand twenty-three
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