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because we were designed to withstand other people's pain
steal it, drag it with us, share it
We are scavengers
We are komodo

but this is not venom
this is simply septic saliva
this is the desiccating fury
caused by harboring that for which we have
hungered
hunted
hounded
honed our skills and wits
these moments rot in our cavities
?ut maybe this thing that makes us immune
ISwhy artists will all die young

The possibility of eternity wears thin the cold blooded
and we reach our graves
before we reach old age
so We must compress our message to fit our fleeting mortality
w~th the hopes that you will all wake one morning
WIth no fear in your footsteps
and we can look at you
speak to you
hold you
and know that you will live

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