… beyond the borders of our beautiful countries there is a terrifying outside world filled with life, a black sun that stretches over a number of continents, only revealing its beauty after the first impact. What you see on the surface is horrible and cruel, but slowly the the beauty emerges;

VI.I am as I age wrestling with the idea of affirmationa long death scene follows which I do not make upwhen I return turn when I return the idea of a roomcome on now they have his hands come on now rubberfingers in mouth in arsehole inside a rummage

IV.I am very happyyou could hear the risk in his voicehe rubs his penis across her waistthe dangerwhat did you say to medid you saytoo muchtoo much of looking over the precipicetoo much of walking around and aroundin these dark rooms where I live out empty daysCavafyand the stripperwith

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…the reasons someone who’s about to shoot another man thinks he has may vary, but the deed is the same, someone will press the trigger, and when the lead breaks the skin and drills into the cranium and damages a lobe and perforates it and opens a path in

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