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Acrostic Distractions

Rupture the Stream of Consciousness

By Rob AngeliPublished about a year ago 1 min read
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1st Distraction)

Disastrously

Insistent on

Such

Terrible

Retention--

Allowing

Consciousness

To

Insist

On

Nothing

2nd Distraction)

Dilly-dallying with all due diligence over

Ill-favored inches of intelligence inspired the

Serpentine hiss of superfluous subtleties

To try and tease-out treacherously into well-laid traps

Rhyming words rotating to some rhythm.

An action is always amputated by other answers (ooh look, a squirrel!)

Commented upon casually by split cerebral cascades

'Til untainted trembling is tuned to the telling

Immaculately intent inch by inch

On one single thought

Nevermore.

Final Distraction)

Deeper, far deeper,

Into the

Silence of a

Tilting mind which is

Returning to

A better place:

Counting every breath

To attempt

Illumination

Of the

Now

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About the Creator

Rob Angeli

sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.

-Virgil Aeneid I.462

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