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YOU HAVE NEVER LIVED BECAUSE YOU HAVE NEVER DIED
(star cloister home of wisdom)I saw 13 black crows as black as 3AMand as big as vultures eyeswith wings hanging to their sides like laundry on the linethey were standing in a circle letting their tongues drythey're coming for me like thieves or ghostsstealing songs, and whispering poems to themselvesabout nonsense and existenceI don't want to dieI saw 4 black eagles, with horns growing towards the groundlike columns or anchors reaching for the bottomtheir feathers folded like hands on a man resting in his coffinbending over each other rattling my bonesdrumming out the answers in ways I will need one daytheir hooves are giving me growing painsI sleep like a tornadoI saw 18 black hawks, with beaks full of teethroaring like a pack of wolves in perfect Vwith hoods over their eyes to cover up what they've seensecrets bouncing off the insides of their lips meant for methey landed on my life like spears, ears tucked back like arrow featherswings spread wide like storm clouds over kansasSongtextehailing on me teaching me their dances, they gave me armourwe will never die, we will never die, I don't want to die, we will never diewe will never die, but we don't want to try, I don't want to die, I won't let you diewe will never die, we won't even try, but if we never die, then we never really liveI saw 9 black owls, they were quiet as deaththey had talons like antlers growing from their heartsand they were tearing me aparteach bird was tagged like cattle with one wordand they burned them in to my mind...they readyou have never lived because you have never died
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