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When I sit down to create, I find myself not wanting to continue something in progress, and instead to launch into something new. Interrogating myself on this, I reply that the rate of completion is too slow, not because I don’t have things I want to make, but because
a poem for me, not for the holidays
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exhausted by the boa
the snake that’s got me
i fight to breathe a little
but I know
as soon as I exhale
as soon as I sleep
it will tighten again
tighter than before
around my chest
its cold skin so hard
and I would fight
yes I would fight
if I could catch my breath
if I could catch a break
instead my vision blurs
and I fear
the snake is winning
and all that waits for me
is a desperate death
upon my dying breath
O Capitalism, thou snake—
the boa around my neck
