old-school reality
the reckoning has returned
gnawing away noisily
at lies & truths
like crows on a carcass
coming & going & returning
for as long as it takes
before becoming nothing more
than a past idea
an overflow of dying thoughts
replaced by lessons
in obedience
—the beginnings of a
new kind of old-school reality
january two thousand twenty-five
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