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MastoPrompt

A bit too much of just about everything —

Dressed in fancy:

buttons hats collars pants shirts zippers shoes

the gaudy wordsmith sprinkles every line with something above and then, beyond

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The broken moon, half-lit and waning, spoons the stars, and not a world's complaining

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Push back - the pendulum never lasts - push back

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She caught me staring again, my mind elsewhere, at her steeping cup of tea,

the mist of morning rising, even though I was the one who set the kettle

who dropped the bag and absentmindedly added milk and honey

and it's funny – I do this routine nearly every day, for love is what puts me in motion

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https://sodaphonic.com/audio/8Yjut7CW6zedYWDmVk57

Dissonance arrives on my tongue to your ears, the words crashing with JohnCageLikeCacophony - all noise and rhythm, pushing against expectations in an unsettled experience - the quiet comes only [sometime

later]

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Need we make a laundry list of all the sycophants bowing down on knees to kiss the crumbling ring

While the clown off screen is on a ramble again, urging fools forward, like the loser thinks he wins

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Like dancers on air, the cloudy steam above the lake shimmers on tiny, wispy toes as daybreak's show continues on

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Nighttime's dreary cousin comes in unannounced: insomnia settles in and sleep gets the bounce

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Cacophonous in its raucousness, the morning symphony of birds and bugs celebrates the rising sun's gloriousness

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The mask we wear only disappears when we let another in

You listen; I sing a disarming song - a vulnerable way to begin

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