III.For567Ate from Mustang's Crush by M.Salley

Let's take it from the top.

Where? did I wake? into this dream?

Yes, every body, let's take it from the top:
5
6
7
8

Close the C to make a circle.
#Five
Close the H to make a rectangle,
just slightly too long to be a square.
Six
Close the A to make an isosceles triangle.
Seven
Close the N to make a rectangle,
a little too long to be a perfect square.
Eight
Close the E to make a super faint right trapezoid,
it appears.
Eight
Close the L to make a right triangle.
Eight
Shop it or shut it.

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8
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Boy West
Let's Go

When you flip the page,
(you)
find the supposed safety net is the pain you have trouble pinpointing.

Chronic, auto, et cetera—you name it. Some large web that goes beyond you but you’re caught in it and you know they get off on your squirm.

A perpetual watching because there you are stuck, twisting over yourself, making it more complicated not to stare. . . When the kicker calls out:
PULL IT TOGETHER KID

To get her
the catch is to never help unstick you from their sticky because with you in it what’s theirs is called yours.
You’re holding it together
so tightly you’re hurt.

For Ex.) An ultimate daughter daughter-ed me and it's so crudely brilliant it took years to see what magic tricks an assistant.

A daughter's system rages, too perpetually in on the joke she trained to perform for others.

Eyes lined to writhe in the rot feeling so uniquely against the world it's become a whole genre. . . Trail tiny baby breadcrumbs all the way to the witch's hut. . .

I had this dream
I was in a movie theater theater
They locked the doors to set fire
And nobody else inside cares to notice

Then right before you cross her threshold
UP you wake.

You put yourself out there by peeling off all you've ever known. Expect an awkward extrication. They'll hold still in critique (though mind you) they've never attempted this move.

In passing down the stick
they proliferate the web's reach.

Their prize?
To find solace in loss.

Status quo has such PULL
Forcing overwhelm
Forcing commitment
despite said overwhelm

How is it that in cleaning up a mess
a bigger mess is made?

[ringing in ears]

Daughters make real workhorses

We'll keep plowing
through the fine-print-terms
inherent to healing a lineage

so

Keep throwing your weight around

The baby breadcrumb step-by-step attracts larger strides

For an object in motion:
Stops workflow to be a good girl.



Are we there yet?
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