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You’re shaking now,
Like your body wants out.
You’re shaking now,
But you can’t make a sound.

Steam rises around your ears and then
You lose focus from the outside in.
The world folds on itself again,
You’re alone onstage, just skin and a grin.

With your chin on your knees and your eyes shut tight,
Can’t speak above a whisper on a street too bright.
You’re a poet’s caught tongue, with too much gold in your lungs.
It’s pulling you deeper out of sight of the sun.
There’s a circle of light cutting into your eyes,
You’d stamp it out, but your hands are tied.
You’re a dancer undone, an empty shell from a shotgun.
But damned if you won’t try to fire right at the sun.

And you crash landed in the pre-dawn fog
On the tenth floor of the hospital.

Good health
Is a fiction that we tell ourselves.
But who’s going to let that stop them anyway
Because today is another day,
Go hard, live well, make change.

We’re all poetry without plot until we decide we’re not,
Just form and fiction in a space without friction.
Drop a coin in the jar marked: “for who we are”.
And don’t forget these: “for who we plan to be”.

Keep lit your torches, hold them high.
This is your life.
Touch the hollow on your throat, look inside.
This is your life.

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from Anchoress is Ruining My Life, released October 4, 2016

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Vancouver Punk since 2010.

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