by Paul Ilechko
Reasonable people can seek to can splinter can break like bone in water stained red or blue or purple burned and branded reasonable people can smooth or soften can exploit the map rebuild the psychoma the flowering of gratitude reasonable people survive aridity under close inspection an insect infestation a lack of preparation a maze between the blankness of lines reasonable people inside their caves each one an interval described in octaves the sky on fire as grasslands vanish into graduation reasonable people exposed to river their veins as tributary an internal heat source a drift a prism fog lamps visible through the mist saltwater erosion of metals reasonable people invest in salvage reasonable people take rope into the tower reasonable people never sleep in darkness days of skull and cancer reasonable people reject the blackness of rhyme reasonable people die their own deaths a world of property values everything degrades to reasonable.
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