I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
That__ a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it__ not really true. It__ like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.
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That__ a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it__ not really true. It__ like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.
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