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A familiar place that becomes increasingly strange.

"helicopterese" (The Matrix, 1999)

1.
greenish golden light
in some encumbered alley
your chimp shades resting

in some encumbered alley
redbrick & bruised passage
& no certain turning

your chimp shades resting
where a moment back you tarried
crushed now beneath fathoms

2.
it is red pill or blue pill
it is Bhopal Chernobyl
nimble but to squander

it is Bhopal Chernobyl
shiver under Saturn
sleek black van

nimble but to squander
squidwise inkier delve
it is red pill or blue pill

The only Iron Man.

"She was ready to skip town much earlier than I was, probably around the time my car was stolen from in front of our apartment. That same week we stayed up all night waiting for the evacuation warning, as the flames crept down from the mountain and wiped the town above us off the map." —Henry Begler via

Storyteller's Wisdom.