things i've been considering (7/21/24)

the artist is a miner

digging through bedrock

with Spoons.

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my heart /

a stone

in the belly

of my soul

my mind /

a vessel Uphill

bound upon a running

river

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i’ve come to realize

/ recently /

that no matter how many

pails of water

i bail

and bail

i can only

ever bail

so much

as to keep me

Afloat.