the listening
Unfasten your ears, from their restraint, the mind, and just listen. It
is hard, is it not? To only hear is hard, invoking hard memories,
hallucinations, but I need you to focus. Grab at the plane of reality, rip it
off like a sheet over your price on a gameshow. You the spun the wheel and
won, but there is no sexy Sadie to pull the curtain off, and no sad consumer
product. There is either the faded outline of what was just there, or a white
and off-white, that pulses and resists. You shake your head, because you
thought that drugs are what started The Rolling Stones. In the end, it has
all been done. Wash away the past, remember to forget and relive to be
reborn. Forget words, only to write them down in humorous imitation.
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