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day one, part one

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Published: Aug 30, 2011

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your voice grates on my nerves like the old dependable classics,
like nails screeching down a chalkboard and utensils scraping across a plate

it grates like:
stepping in dog shit while looking for a towel,
a pickaxe lifting the back of my skull,
coconut shavings in desert;

like that feeling of moss growing on the back of my teeth and
the breakdown of language and i can't remember words or letters or ...

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okay so i'm doing a ten day meme, let's see how well i actually stick to finishing this.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.

i'm breaking this up and doing each person separately. mostly because i've been having trouble writing this past month, and i just want to ease back into things.