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our bodies. perhaps we are undividedso all that remainsobservation response decision; its ignorancefeeling plays between notesrestsour sensation refused meaningonly to exist within us reverberant containedwhose only [such a nefarious, only] harm is [never quantified in other’d &loved lives impacted misplaced; lost] our interior with unfelt damage a nullification of nervous capacity, capability?culpable in all matters; even in defense animals earthlings harmunfelt wounds seldom heal[ing] instead writhe until the tormented expression of softness; rage’s last breath how rage is expressed, made complete, in softness?it is not nor is it with its opposite; brutality&both require living while offering ourexistence; if transaction is our only means of emotional reciprocation, then iii digress inside an intention who refused meaningmerely yearning to be heardsuffering plays between notesrequires rests[unrequited] melodies demand silence to pierceour wayward lives; to demand pauseour healing-in-action breathing betweennotes&their break wehavelonged languished in living alongside a brutal beautiful kind of rage who demands reckoningrecognition’sreconciliation; a bliss bornon pages inked by those who held observation gruesomea neglected gatekeeperwho approved happiness’s ill-equipped yet ambitious understudy; oblivion soft iii play this music forwhich iii posses no desirerest is spoken in languageswho offend me with infermentfinally iii am fooled bywith knowing soft revolution requires rest[l]earned bywith experienceiii misunderstoodiii thought iii [knew] our stillness in motion ouí. …and there should be a subscribe button here. Get full access to substantive.material at substantivematerial.substack.com/subscribe