OCEAN FLOOR

this dead apartment

houses our confused faces.

lonely hands and long stares,

holding nothing but years

of deteriorating history.

i'll crawl through this trench

we created over and over again,

but this ocean floor was never

built fer two.

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EASTER CITY

let's point our flashlights at the moon

and never stop running.

this land is our land, and these dreams

have never been so good.

so now its back to the bottoms of rivers.

to uninterrupted fields,

rapidly reclaiming what once was theirs.

the expiration of urban sprawl.

these treetops will hide our history,

while the forest floor keeps us warm.

year after year, we'll watch

as roots divide these parking lots,

like pushing through dead pavillions.

crowds of children watch while we self-destruct.

how long can this body last?

how long will she stay?

BLUEBERRY ISLAND

six years of swimming in these oceans

has really slowed me down.

we're high as water-towers and

sleeping with flies.

i swear, yer the last tree i'll ever cut down.

SOAP / SAND

Written Portions of Scientific Method Series

P R O B L E M :

I've kept a different dirty secret from each one of you,
And I've skirted the responsibility of loving you for this long,
But your pain is catching up with your wits
And I don't know if I have the energy to say No anymore.

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H Y P O T H E S I S :

I think it's all going to catch up with me,
But I've never been one to look ahead.
It's hard enough lying through today
Without knowing what I'll have to hide tomorrow.

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E X P E R I M E N T :

- Keep conscious in company
- Show interest occasionally
- Engage in conversation when questioned
- Personal hygiene
- Keep in contact with family and friends
- Laugh in company
- Change clothes daily
- Acknowledge romantic advances
- Go to sleep voluntarily (before dawn)
- Have a plausible reason when spending money
- Look forward
- Believe in happiness
- Ignore death and dying

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O B S E R V A T I O N S :

Good Grief
Witch King
Extreme Apathy
Holy Hell
Lone Wolf
Drugs
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Dead Inside
Quality of Life

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C O N C L U S I O N :

You are the only people I've ever really known,
Or maybe this is the first time in our lives that we have had something worth knowing.
If any of you die, I will ______________________.

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