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ambulance
atmosphere
atonement
article
afterlife
animal
affection
alcohol
attachment? in a time like this?
i can only think of being held, by you, who has never held me before
i can only think of being held, by you, who will then have to let me go
i can only think of being held, by you, and then i begin to think of more consequential matters
bandana
blasphemy
ballistics
bicycle
botany
baptism
battery
balcony
beginning of a new world
i can see land from where i am sleeping
we can grow there, if we do not sink
the water is up to my knees and i believe in what’s to come
capital
customer
cognition
computer
countenance
companion
colony
creation
call everyone you’ve ever loved and tell them the story
there was once something beautiful here and it’s just nice to be able to speak to someone who saw it too
distortion
dilation
dynasty
december
dopamine
difference
density
devotion
distance is the only thing keeping me alive
if i let you in where will i stand
please tell me, where do we stand?
i did not want to stand here alone
energy
expression
element
enterprise
envelope
equation
endearment
emptiness
estimate the future and divide it by two
add three
multiply by seven
keep the answer to yourself, it’s not something i’d like to hear
family
funeral
foundation
furniture
frequency
follower
fairytale
fundraiser
feeling rather than touching
to be sensed, a sensation
when i walk down the street people do not notice me and they walk directly into my physical form as if it was just a memory i was reliving in a sunlit room far away from here, a ghost from my own past
gallery
gravity
genesis
gasoline
genetics
graffiti
guardian
gathering
gripping onto the railing, i walk down, remembering that everything that can be lost will be lost
when they said they would reach out later, i believed them, forgetting that i had walked down the steps
my grandmother, i have to call my grandmother
hydrogen
history
happiness
hospital
habitat
highlighter
harmony
halloween
how many people would it take to change enough lightbulbs for us to see something far greater than ourselves
our shadows stand behind us, doomed to follow in our footsteps
internet
insurance
illusion
interest
inception
innocence
instrument
infection
imagine imagining a better world
stop drawing lines
for everyone’s sake, please stop drawing the fucking lines
javelin
jugular
jealousy
jewelry
jupiter
juvenile
journalist
jackhammer
justice is a hard thing to come by, they stopped selling it in the stores
i once heard of a man who sold typewriters out of his garage in san francisco
kilogram
kinetics
kingfisher
kidnapper
kodiak
kentucky
koala
kindliness
keeping my feet on the floor and my back straight and my arms out and my head tilted and my knees bent and my heart beating and beating and beating and beating
library
lovelessness
lottery
levitate
ligament
location
litterbug
letterpress
living after
that’s all we can attempt to do
memory
media
melody
mercury
mitosis
messenger
mosquito
monument
mistakes, you kept making them
you can try forever and that’s all it will ever amount to
i saw you desire perfection and i wondered if you had ever felt calm
nobody
narrator
novocaine
notary
nonfiction
novelty
nursery
nonevent
nothing is unachievable
i have searched everywhere for it
seeking to transform into a concept that defies the laws of being
but i wake up in the morning and i go to sleep at inight
i will die as an object or perhaps even as a subject
oxygen
opposites
opening
obsession
oblation
overload
objective
overture
on the last day
on the first day
on any of the days in between
i had no idea it was that day until it was over
parallel
proportion
packaging
paradox
procession
policy
producer
prediction
partially due to my inability to be known, i’ve become partial to someone who does not see me
yet here i am pained when all of this this is proven true
quality
quarantine
quarterback
quietness
quantity
questionnaire
quantify
quotation
quit demanding walls to be built by bricks that are crumbling in our hands
i want to see the other side of this facade
who is operating the heavy machinery under consumption of fear
rosary
replica
receiver
rhetoric
remainder
refraction
resistance
retriever
rising
the sun does it every single day without complaint
no one pushes it back down, it does so on its own volition
suggestion
surgery
spectator
signature
statistics
sentiment
salvation
selection
smiling in the face of a well so deep that only those who never plan on returning gaze inside
there is a sense of joy in the acceptance of all that destroys it
we can laugh about it later
traveler
tinnitus
tradition
telescope
tolerance
transition
temperance
tartarus
tell me i am
tell me you are
tell me i am
tell me you are
tell me i am
tell me you are
you’re a liar, aren’t you
uniform
uselessness
urgency
utensil
ultraism
utterance
usurper
utopist
under no circumstances can we continue as we had before
that is the only certainty i have come to
there has never been anything to prove me wrong
sometimes i wish i was, there are many moments i long to return to, people and decisions
virulence
vexation
vanity
vibration
vocation
vertebrate
variant
vacuity
voluntarily knowing i had no choice in the matter, we are all here to do our jobs
i show up, i clock in, i show up, i clock in, i show up, i clock in
i have never clocked out and i am scared of the inevitable
wilderness
weariness
wretchedness
woodcutter
windowsill
withdrawal
wallpaper
watchmaker
what is one person’s pain but only a small remnant of the world’s most common experience
i watched my father cry
i cried until my nose bled
xanthosis
xylograph
xenarthra
xenotime
xenograft
xenolith
xylophone
xenophon
xoxo
yours truly
even when i should be mine and mine alone
yesterday
youthfulness
yieldingness
yearnfulness
yokeldom
yardmaster
yosemite
yenisei
yeah i get the words
i see them i read them i take them in they become me and i become an amalgamation of experiences i will never know
zeppelin
zoology
ziggurat
zymosis
zodiac
zootheism
zetetics
zealousy
zephyr, blowing in
i see the branches of the tree swaying
i think to myself, it would be nice to be a singularity of a whole
and then i think about the people who complete me and i feel content
and then i think about losing them and i feel everything else
the branches remain unchanged, or at least not in ways that i will ever be able to understand
anarchy
bewilderment
contagious
deliverance
epitome
fatality
grandeur
habitual
innovation
january
ketamine
lingering
monumental
negligible
obscenity
pavement
quota
romantic
sanitation
tangible
ushered
vulnerable
withering
xerox
zenith
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one singular idea that does not exist outside of itself
my skeleton is dancing on its own
the structure of my form
i didn’t think it would end up like this
in here
so sweet
i wait
in fear
in the distance there is a soft steady stream of emergency vehicles singing their songs
reminding us that we are standing on the brink of imminent danger
and behind us there are men in powdered wigs waiting to push us off into a certainty i would rather not say
and so we will fly, or we will fall, or in the best case scenario we will fight them to the death and we will live
of serenity or solitude
to be subjugated by the indefinite
peace has never felt so violent here in my room
i just wanted to pray for the rain
wishful thinking
for sunny days
once upon a time there was a town next to a river
and on the other side of the river stood four people
their arms were crossed and their chins were pointed up towards the skies and they said
“i have heard the words spoken by he himself”
and so the townspeople ran out of their homes, their doors flung wide open, letting the flies in to devour their fruits and their children
to hear the words spoken by he himself translated by the mouths of strangers
and in time the townspeople went back to their homes to find their homes had been replaced by factories
their food had perished and their children, abandoned in their youth, were now grown and haggard, manning the machines
please don’t take it all away
i have always been an angry person and i can finally understand the rest of the world
have we ever considered communicating with each other at an emotional level?
there are no language barriers to see when someone is in pain or in love or deeply disappointed
i believe we can come to some global conclusions regarding the fate of our species through our shared tears and laughter
a mother with no mother mothers a mother i call my own
a father with no father leaves my father for months as a child all alone
my mother and my father mother and father myself
when i was 22 i lost myself and when i was 23 it was the whole wide world
there is nothing quite as beautiful as something you cannot describe
in the event of an event in which the earth as we know it stops spinning i will attempt to illustrate said object
i will use only the deepest core of my being which no one else can directly witness and i cannot tolerate to express in its most outward direction
sheepishly, i will fail and in this transit from trying to an indisputable defeat, i will realize what must be done
i will sit front and center and fully accept that i did not accomplish what i had set out to do
no one will clap and no one will understand the story that i had fumbled with my futile organs and that which holds them together and forces them to dance
i will stand up and try again until the room is empty and everyone has gone home
the closest i will ever get to my initial purpose is perfectly describing a memory of a beauty i once observed with all of my senses
and that night, after a long walk home from an inconsequential congregation, someone else, in the quiet darkness, will experience something in which there are no accurate words to articulate at a later date
and yet they will feel galvanized into pursuing the impossible in a moment of temporal ambiguity in order to make sense of what has been lost and what we can find in the residue
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Water From Your Eyes Brooklyn, New York
Nate Amos (he/him) and Rachel Brown (they/them)
Management: Nik Soelter
nsoelter@gmail.com
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