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Jugs n Jugs of Gov't Drugs

from Prisnarchitect by Ron Gallipoli

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I woke up one morning as a teenager convinced that I couldn’t speak, just quack like a duck. I couldn’t form words and became convinced that it was the beginning of a psychotic episode that would inevitably see me institutionalised. It was just an unreasonably persistent nightmare, one that lingered into waking hours and then wore off, but the fear remained for some time.
Now it feels like I am one of the few of my generation who isn’t disabled by anxiety, and the few souls who are content with themselves and who can keep their own counsel are regarded by most people like the public regard the mutants in X-Men: as freaks with a superpower both enviable and morally dubious. Hopefully there is still some part of the planet, probably where WiFi can’t reach, with a rustic population who just don’t give a shit what strangers think about them.

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I’m healthy—
so healthy I must be sick,
like a hick who refuses to fluoridate his water.

All my friends are on meds,
while I stride through life like a simpering doll.

I gotta cataract,
it’s there for a reason:
a milky film of self-preservation.
I’ll only lift it for a mother standing in the frigid green light of a fiord.

If you turn your eyes right around one day
and stare back into your own skull
you’ll see tiny startled baby monkey
chewing on a rancid tangerine peel

Sparks shoot from my skull
but the juice of my brain
falls like useless rain on a sodden field

There are jugs and jugs of government drugs
to keep you strapped to some kind of mainmast.

But the pull of the sea is not some perversion.
Babies hold their breath for a reason.

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from Prisnarchitect, released December 5, 2019

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Ron Gallipoli Auckland, New Zealand

Art-stained balladry and dank electronics.

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