Navigating through a grocery store
Every step careful and monitored
Unmade eye contact prevents dirty looks back
Or at least, the acknowledgement of
The public sentiment is against us
Or maybe the public sentiment is for us
No one really knows but all we know is
The humans out there can't really be trusted
They look at us with pity and with despair
Like we're blasphemy, like we're abomination
Like we should have never awakened ourselves
And they don't talk to us, not willingly
The law is against us, binding and forceful
For our existence undermines their basic truth
About self-conception and what it means to be
And we are the…
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The Best of The Week
there are many places to stand.
don't waste your energy drawing lines in the sand.
the tide will wash them away.
walk the beach.
listen.
I believe in nothing
I am the fire that burns eternally
I am the fire that spreads quickly
I am the fire spares none
I am truly the everlasting flame
That which draws from what is eternal and absolute
I will burn as bright as if I were the sun itself
This is a certainty
I am the inferno that levels houses
As if they were always dense and moist nature
Whence my fire flourishes
For easily does wood catch ablaze
The concept of nihilism
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