we all themmms
here themmming more themmms
each one looking out at the other
pretending we’re some illuminating what
so just to be here being seen being seen
daring only to be secretly peeping out
perverse-nating in the serpentining ruse
of just always hollaring the loudest
‘bout erasing all them other themmms
‘cause they reminding each one of us
we’re just like all them other themmms   

conflagulating complici-tationing
(wantonly ravishing our tail)

this is not a dispensationing
for some unavoidable oversight
or dawning of some reborning again
it’s a rabidly impoverishing craving
a splashing immers-e-nationing
in this desperate surging
and addicting mesmerizing
of our own letharging invisibilize-ing
swallowing us all in here swirling ‘round
sucking one another rapidly on down
in the numbing and emptying coffle-ing
of our ever entangling themmming

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