August 30, 2015
slowly
slowly slowly
everything is working out
but slowly
I’m a big man getting smaller
but I’ll never be small
I was built for comfort
and post-coital embrace
but I corner well
the platitudes of willful resemblance
words of a people aligned in their perfect order
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