
name :: Riley "SET" Deville
organization :: N/A
job :: writer | performance artist
age :: 22
mun :: shoji
email :: veer.through.trees -@- gmail.com
aim :: swall0wtale
you're trying too hard
surrender
give yourself in
you're trying too hard
you're trying too hard
i'm praying
to be
in a generous mode
the kindness kind
the kindness kind
to share
me
to share me
undo
undo
if you're bleeding
undo
and if you're sweating
undo
if you're crying, darling
undo
undo
oh
i
unravel
[ undo . bjork ]

if
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s&&&&&grated
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whateveryoulikewhateveryoulike
he
said
so
slo
lie
(e?)
i will never lie to you
he said
he said
lies are on my tongue and not my hands
he said
he stood in the parlour, keeping his shakes at bay. restless like the wolves and hangered like a limb, he crept; crawled through the shape of his skin and slithered through the desolace desole. whatever he asked for, he mimicked his games, whatever he miscarried-- oh, he miscarried so well.
murmured with sancitity to sanctify the lame, the core covered drollops, the mesopotame damed and dirty-- a lace oilcloth in a matchstick flame.
salvaged was one word for it-- sparse was another. he left himself cursed in the midnight sun and sank in a salt water that would have none of.
looks to be dying
for every morning
for every morning
for every morning
for every morning
for every morning
for every morning
for every mourning
that addles his
pre-emptive
em
pt
y
burial.
.
 
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
so they all said
so they every said
this disease
can
and
will
be your death
your lover
your grave
&
your comfort.
your only one
your one and only
your friend, foe, and impartial judge.
we do the things we do because we want to do them
and we reap the seed we sow because that's all we live from.

they pronounced him dead on the scene.
cadaver creased and ceased to desist by the very nature of things, they strung his body on a cheesecloth stretcher. a fault of his own not faulted at all, schrapnel shavings listless in an empty father that couldn't have fared their wills any farther.
he'd worn stockings that day-- ripped and addled and rambled with holes in their kneesockets. a fishnet reprieve in a tie collared intervention.
he laid dead amongst the dying of his parts. the rack and the pinion, a bumper mutilated into contortionist gesture. two headlights, a grille, an exhausted clutch-- bound to the muffler by way of starter ring and gearlock. gridded with apathy and latent defiance, crankshafted, pistoned, and throttled-- belatedly well known in utmost compliance of torqued complacency, kingpin mechanics, and a trafficated transaxle missionary position.

heneveracceptedit
and the survivor remembers that fact
heneveraccepteditneveraccepteditneveracceptedit
to this very day.
a dnr order adjucated by a mother of one, they shut his skeleton in a padlocked room, steaming with cold, gurneyed dry ice, and red-green deficiencies. better off that way for the sake of shameful deceit, she felt. he, on the other side, felt
every
single
death
that
wasn't
his
own
[ or every lack thereof ]
and he screamed,
because he was afraid.
because he was starving.
because he was suffocating.
because it was so fucking dark.

he minced his diseases in the second five minutes of his freedom-- severed his ties in the likeliest of fashions. a phonecall, a disturbance, a vouyeur's delight. he rattled his prattles to the highest bidder, mimicked his monologues on instant repeat.
"Get yourself tested. I'm going to die."
he wanted to crumble on the count of his lonesome eloquence, but he couldn't survive long enough to defy himself,
bought his meds with his rent money
and begged a friend to take him back.

he lives with that one now, because he couldn't bring himself to die on his own.
Rowan
keeps the clandestiny of his lies at farfetch bay.

[+]
words . imagination
freedom
[-]
fragility . image
failure . judgemental
condescending . pessimistic
people . roommate
crippled
unable
incapable
disease

he might have a goal,
but really
he's
just
too
ashamed
of himself.

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