Transient Burden

Happily never after

D. E. Fulford
Nov 2 · 2 min read
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

We’re killing time
— slaughter by the numbers —

a concept manifest
in times more gallant

these pauses of living, my

mind scrambling to catch itself,
to keep up with itself
to keep track of this feeling
to know when it creeps back in on all fours,

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D. E. Fulford

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