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Cliché Is Your Worst Enemy

By Nick Crowley
cliche is your mortal enemy

Illustration by Damehi Laloo

Is is such a bad word

 the lamp in my room is not an inspired topic

Is is running through the old mire

  i’m trying not to be sad

   i’m trying to get something interesting out of my broken head, i really feel like i’d feel        better if i could have a little moment of brilliance but i think i should probably just go to bed

               but i don’t want to

 Is is where things only connect

   to one other thing; it was cold today

     yesterday was thirty-seven degrees

The thing about your street,

  is that in the dark everything

    looks slanted

      i had a feeling i was on ruckers hill

Ah! I’m unnourished, i do confess to naval gazing

  i don’t remember where I was going with that

    i can’t keep my eyes open

And all that psycadelic music

  makes you feel like everything’s mushed together

     all happy

       forgetful

         just a little confused

But why the rinsing?

  always seizing upon myself

    when I’m tired and drugged up

       stop calling that honesty

“Now that I’m a river”

   then I’m a swamp

The sundering

  energy doesn’t last forever

    that’s got to make you think about marriage

      bad idea

Things always become other things

  you go between moments of energy and moments of in the mire

   got it?

 And that’s what I meant to say

  it’s strange that your street seems so slanted

   when it’s actually very flat


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Posted On: June 5, 2023
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