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What brought you to New York?
Television.
Oh, you saw it in a movie?
Yes, but that's not why.
Why then, you said television
Yes but because
The city is too transient for Television.
That's what brought me here.
That's what will keep me here.
not physically cause static is movement.
And when there's static on the television, we turn.
But that's what will always draw me here
The comfort of an unworking Television
The constant static
Reminding me to move
But always feeling like this is home
Like when i've drifted off to sleep to the sound of a static snowstorm
Waking up and going properly to bed
Only until morning, when the news the news it starts again.

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Dread, White & Blue

A subway terminal is where everyone sort of drones. Listen to the sounds in a subway terminal as different as they are it's all just DRONE their faces DRONE the paces DRONE the train the rain the yellow the window panes everything DRONE DRONE DRONE
But maybe the drones can protect the plants from insects, so we don't have to spray.

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the pinch

i have that pain again
in the back of my back
between my shoulder blade and spine
the pain i used to get when i missed you
but i forgot to
the pinch would remind me
remind me of you
i can't quite name it
that part of my back that hurts
or that thing that's not there
i guess that's what they call missing
something felt
not quite seen
not quite named
just felt
A pain

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