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2023-06-05
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subvert / 1977

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Summary:

And so, even when I see you again, and play parts with you, be it on the stage or in the busy streets life orchestrates, I'll always break, and you never will.

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Work Text:

This time I'll die first and subvert all your expectations - the expectations of art you envelop yourself with, let it cut deep into your neck until you rip the rope you tied it with, blacken it with heat.

And I'll die first as a form of breaking, as I never tended to do, only once, but once is enough. I broke once and I broke the world around me, like an earthquake of realities and lives intertwined, and I went on and kept breaking the roads beneath me until they could no longer take me home.

However, when you die, your ending isn't a catastrophe, your ending is an elegant finale, you get to die a graceful death, as she did, as people tend to do. No matter how painful or grotesque, such a death is always graceful. And so, even when I see you again, and play parts with you, be it on the stage or in the busy streets life orchestrates, I'll always break, and you never will. You collect cracks like a withering pot but you never break, you never do. And I shatter into pieces within an instant, as if I was always withering away.

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wrote this very short work as a means of dealing with feelings I had