day 5: here is what i remember

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Reincarnate my tombstone of a brain//

My nails chip as i dig into my skull

Get to the prefrontal cortex; that's where the memories are

Why does it feel so dull?

The feeling lingers in my grasp,

Like empty tombstone that once held the

Body of an experience;

It has been revived to walk on it's own.

Maybe that is why I can not seem to

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it down in the river of veins

Or why I do not have the heart to follow it through

The heavy fog suffocating my hollow brain

And hold it captive in my cerebrum once more

-S/A

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