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Last night I spent 6 hours
Standing in a white room
and hoping
that my great uncle
would live 
and not fix the deck that he's been working on 
and not call me anymore
because he's the one that I for some reason was afraid of
and then there was this cat that came and sat on my feet
I think it was my little bit of rebellion
and then what happened next is a bit of a blur
but I think it had something to do with 
a bowl of hot sauce 
I can still feel it burning my face
And then I was trapped behind chains and was being given everything I could want except freedom
and i was screaming so loudly i think i popped the man in the corners eardrum because he went doubling over in pain and then I started remembering 
that I had to write a music score and they wouldn't give me the materials and I wished 
really hard
to be somewhere else 
and I think my wish came true 
because then 

woke 
up
and was very warm, curled up in my blankets.

Mercury

VT

18 years old

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    (meant to be read out loud) 


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