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It Comes in Waves

The ceremony is feeding the black interior

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Ayana Zaire Cotton
Jun 12, 2023
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jeffmills.jpeg from the Southern Electronics Are.na channel seeded by Ryan C. Clarke. Image description: The negative space of the image is completely black with only the positive space being the silhoutte of Jeffs Mills crouched over a Roland keyboard on the floor— the positive space is filled with a silvery cosmic glitter reminiscent of bleach stains or a galaxy.
It comes in waves
Time slowed

          Thank god time slowed

And you can see it now
The black water rising up above the horizon
The more you look
The ripple in time grows larger 
Future tripping
Larger 
And soon it’s towering
Quicker than safety
The only thing that 
Slows it down is picking
Up a pen

Meditating gun runner
Lorde knows
How much would I give up for safety?
I think everything
Someone said you can’t take 
Your freedom with you when you’re dead
But that’s a fucking lie
Because I’m looking at them
Write now
And they look free 
They feel free

And there
Look there!
There’s me
*points to the little girl who made a…

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