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Cloudy

By Tico H., 18, Jesse Jones High School, Houston, Texas, USA

    Cloud
         -y days [daze?]
         with fog miles and kilometers up -
         isolating stars dancing and
         my eyes

    ~Make it gray
         ~easier that way
         to play
         ignorance/imperception -
         deceptions of non-connections
         ~easier to be
         a gray
         performance

    So let that liquid gray fog
         in
         [-likestreamsofintoxicantfumes
         flyingupthestemofthataddict's
         glasscrackpipe]

    Dark and ominous,
         but somehow comforting
         to have millions of pounds of ice
         crushing
         your view of blue
         your view of speckled-white black
         of naked orange sunsets
         makes it easier.
         To not think.
         To be an automaton on the whims of existence.
         To not appreciate.
         If it's true -
         that what's outside is internalized
         and what's internal is externalized
         then in our cyclic existence,
         there's chaos -
         our nebulous friends ... blinders

    Protect my fragile psyche
         from inspiration?
         from insanity?
         from variety and variance?
         NO.

    A no to ignorance
         to intoxicant stillness
         to impressions misled...
         - and a yes to sunsets, stars, blue, and lunacy
         - addiction to madness is better.

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