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Fiber by VBAadmin, literature
Literature
Fiber
have you ever swallowed a toothbrush fiber? gullet and all piercing slashing unfriendly beast enters the side of the gums, gingivitis ginger unsweet Like sweet blood rushing in your mouth unpleasant but friendly like a friend you haven't visited in years, hello, it says and yet you can no longer look it in the face so you say goodbye old friend I'm afraid I don't miss you down my gullet. Please leave my gullet. and of course it doesn't, but that's life, right?
Bright red by VBAadmin, literature
Literature
Bright red
Car doors burning
bright red
with a flash of lightning, yellow
and loud, shouting like injured gazelles,
the kind that screech in your dreams profanities unsuitable for this audience.
The name is Detective Hitler, he says,
and you awake with a start,
and your heart jumps 1400 beats
and you're dead, but death is transient and shallow,
considering that brain tissue in rodents can be reactivated
six hours after cardiac arrest; see citation 1, Charpak and Audinat, 1997.
And the year is 1997,
and you're still dreaming of car doors on fire,
because you have nothing better to do
but sit at home and watch television.
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