Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Free Stress Test

Are you alone? right now? do you watch people go? do you follow them? with determined accuracy? has winter held you? by the throat? have you noticed the dark patches fall? do you still walk around? have you somewhere to be? will you bring a coat? buttons? how many calls do you make? in a day? late at night? do you prepare your words ahead of time? will you ever have nothing to say? do you make demands? for peace? silence? are these natural in you? or do you force it often? every so often? could you dance? without standing? do you often stir? while sleeping? how long does it take you to fall? asleep? do you know? what's it mean to you? to sleep? what of your short-term experiences? your long-term memories? do you recognize the divide? what does it mean to you when I say the past is a myth? does everything flow around you? or ahead of you? how do you feel about being a stone? in a calm current? can you hold your liquor? do you drink? or does sobriety glue you? when a drunk man yells hello to you, is he crazy? or are you? for turning a sober cheek? what podiums do you possess? or which colored sign at a protest? which would you hold? with grace? in regards to race? would you talk down to evil? stand up? if someone told you "there, that is evil"? would you be confident then? what of your body? is it neat? do your muscles stretch? like rubber bands? how often do you mutter about massages? have you grown deep enough roots? do you feel the earth when you walk? or have you been flung? are you floating? who has you? your heart? who would own up their mistakes to you? who saves & makes their mistakes on you? do you see your mistakes as flukes? pariahs? or as accurate representations of your failure of a personality? this part's important. do you think? or do you feel? both? how on earth do you manage? are your parents proud? are they still alive? do they feed you? do they fight? will it last? are you all right?

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