walking during august half-light

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grab your keys | stuff your earbuds in | you might regret this | open the door | heat isn't a wall | it doesn't hit you | it clings | like sickly warm plastic wrap | humidity muffles the twilight | the sky darkens into gray blues | patchy and puffed with clouds | trees stand stark and dark against it | drawn with scratchy willow charcoal

[really, though use your earbuds for that one]

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down the road | listening to old rock | dancing with yourself | watching for the cars | the air breathes hot like a dragon smoking an exhaust pipe | like standing over a bared running engine | wrinkle your nose | what's the smell | better yet | let's not ask

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stare at the sky | think of other things | other places | just as dark but snowy | with a wind that bites and sneers with a cold scream | to chill the hot-blooded | think of other things | think of stories | winter nightmares storming alive | the ice-crystal resolve of those who stand against them | a yawning swallow of darkness | the end of immortality | a light glinting off a sword | a white stag

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who called ambition an evil | who called the status quo ok | those liars | their demise shall come | the truth seekers are rising

[you'll have to wait a bit for that one]

lightning flashes | a constant discontent | thunder rumbles | where's the exit | what are you doing here | rain spits on your face | this is just a checkpoint | this is not forever | the tarmac glitters in the streetlights | a small cool breath penetrates the humidity | it came from somewhere | the stifled heat returns | everyone comes from somewhere | doesn't determine where they go 

and where do you go from here

[if you're not sick of this song yet, here's the real thing]

How's your week going?