Tag: mind
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Limits
It’s true what they say, that the mind is the limit,That any battles outside it are conquered within it,But any battles inside it can’t be conquered without it,Impossible, still, when each synapse is knouted. Each lash, a thief of perception so deathly defiant,Makes all the small things turn into great giants,So how do you fight…
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Battery Pack
As I sit on the top floor of my work building, back nestled against the safety door that leads to the roof, I try to ignore the pulse in my forehead, the result of a morning of pretending. Pretending is hard. It’s like turning one of those new-fangled cordless vacuum cleaners up to maximum and…
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Pachyderm Fight Club
Sharing something a little different today: It shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, but there is an elephant in the room. An enormous, fuck-off elephant, and nobody is talking about it. Seriously?! It’s like Pachyderm Fight Club. First rule of Pachyderm Fight Club? Well, you know. This particular elephant is…
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Clock Blocked
Tick, tick, tick; the sound resounds, A hammer in the still of the minute, Tick, tick, tick; a knife that can slice through thought and all that’s in it. It’s all that lives as silence swells, Its tendrils choke my mind, Every word I’ve ever learned is filched by the lilt of time. And this…
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Brain Storm
It’s raining inside my head. Pouring. I can feel each drop as it cascades through my mind forming translucent sheets of icy coldness, sharp as knives, that flood the echoes of my consciousness while a cackling clap of thunder drowns out every rational thought. Then a sudden bolt of lightning illuminates a cavern in the…
Serena Malcolm 