Clamor 2021

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Call It What You Will Corbin Louis

2016 we decided fast and loose we decided rooftop spell “say it with your chest” with your cigarette and your incubator and the light rail half built like the skeleton of a concrete god

In Seattle we drank gallons of tomorrow u, resurrected angel,

made me ramen at 3:20am

u, kept me warm through February in a year I had nowhere to be and that’s how I survived the oxycyclone the second part of a friday shift dragging my body like a blinking corpse my chief complaint, is life I explain u nod ‘atrophy and fireworks’ ‘what’s the difference’ I ask ‘perspective’ u whisper but call it what u will haywire

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