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a descent into poetry insanity
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memories
today,
I feel like driftwood.
tired.
twisted.
weathered.
tear soaked—
wept dry.
haunting.
at one with my dead.
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line count: 9
prompt: season
I started thinking about seasoning food but then my mind drifted to seasoning wood which makes it stronger, but then old, weathered wood took me here.
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