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Difficult to remember the lessons I’m preaching didn’t reach me wended my path stumbles and errors failure as instructor

can’t soften the blows that are to come swift and low swift and low knocking out your knees all that’s left of your breath

my mouth never stops chewing air spewing care remorse regrets like words can do anything to cushion a fall

can’t shield the strikes that will rain down hard and high hard and high cracking open your brainpan enough to let in the worst kinds of sin

trust the system I want to burn believe in the father I’m not trust the self that I loathe confess your bleakest heart in therapy we won’t bother to reschedule

or

barring that

remember if you can that all of this seeming permanence is a phantom of time and will before you realize be a palimpsest innocent of memories if not the scars