Embrace nothingness. You’re always fighting someone you were. The sound of emptiness roars around the earth. Pronounce your pronouns. Improvise yourself in the mirror. Position yourself between two collapsing spheres. It seems like it’s fine to be in constant redesign, but I ache because I’ll never heal right. “Are you a boy? An inkblot? Are you caught in between two thoughts?” I don’t know. I just know I’m… not. There’s nothing beyond this unfeeling space in which we stir. The stars are screwed into the empty sky at night, and their light wades into your empty glass of wine. The makeup won't hide the weary tremble of my eyes, and nothing ever changes with the weight of my attention. I hear a bird in the beams. Her body stutters and screams, “Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything.”¹
¹ "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," Neutral Milk Hotel
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