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Normalcy is in the windowsill,
two cats and a novella later,
chai stains in the wood and
a blanket with a wolf pack
howling to a yellow moon.
Normalcy is one load of laundry,
one reflection in every window
after dusk, and one month between
each existential crises,
because life is slipping away faster
and death seems to be approaching
slower, not even worth a greeting –
until he’s in the room hulking
as a reminder from someone’s casket.
Perhaps ‘normalcy’ is simply
the distraction between each
lifetime and the scales
which weigh its value.
I hate the word "normalcy" at the same time I'm fascinated by the sounds it's composed of. It sets my teeth on edge, but I always repeat it, because it rolls so weird off of the tongue.
I thought maybe it truly is just distractions between the beginnings and ends we see of life, until eventually it's our own?
Who knows.
I thought maybe it truly is just distractions between the beginnings and ends we see of life, until eventually it's our own?
Who knows.
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I'm having a lot of existential dread. I think it's because I'm done with school, and all my life I was obsessed with learning stuff so I could DO stuff. And now that I'm doing stuff, I just feel like "oh...so that's all there is?" Getting used to that is strange.