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dostoyevsky idiot riddles

By aiwaz

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i carry the weight of my world in my jaw each word smothered strangled in my paw each letter gnash tooth gnaw chew me small swallow me raw cancer of my inky claw demonic engines of backwoods crossroad scratch thorns tangled nerves woven burning fuse tripwires landmines seed the soil of my screams each step blossoms fires and blows winds to this twitching behind my eyes spasms of dostoyevsky idiot riddles elecrical chemical impulse shivers searing chasms of blinding light give me caeser bleeding on the senate floor let me bite down on the moon see it hang in the blueminous gel worn and rusted like a burnt out spoon give me a whole set of bones to hang let me chew each one to a nub lightning bottles of egg yolk eyes that crack and fry inside my skull peel my skin off like a luxury grape feed me my flesh, make me chew it slowly i carry the weight of my world in my jaw Written February 27th, 2002 © on Feb 27 2002 03:16 PM PST   0 • 1

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