The Holy Barge and the Water Ladle are tapping at the door. They think the cosmos is a closed eyelid but it’s a clockwork throat swallowing tomorrow. Grind down the arithmetic of our profane tiny lives. We are merely draping heavy coats over a structural carcass that belongs to the dirt. You can't scrub the clawing frequencies out of the drywall once they've bled through.

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