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Shift Drink 8-4

It’s like cold as a holding place for hunger / occupied theater / overcast & cafes / phone calls and heat / understated / kicks on / flame fashioned from long walks / between the hallways of this building / call it surveillance & a passive meal/blades & the knowledge of oxygen as space / somewhere other than here / memory hands out business cards/subway platforms / secret maps/vibrations/announcements from city hall/language as occupations/curfews and obsolete distance/production as finite rage / the universal vanishing point/debt as milk & things scattered / collection / collective / correction as windows / show don’t tell / as abstractions / show your work / as mosaics of  broken glass / fuck this state / show your work / everyday piecemeal / pickup the city / useless metaphors / sell us hunger & cold / the city / the empty / the absurd / show your work

 


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