Atomic Weights

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slender corridors between yesterday and tomorrow. tunnel through us. too content in their absent bridges. 

the loud atoms of why. viciously radioactive. devour us from within. 

sometimes even nothing is too much. 

the sky collapses. just as we knew it would. all those hungry artifacts bite down. all of our monsters  humbled by dead wars. 

we shift the pieces. flesh our decaying chessboard. every touch owned by the game. 

strays caught in time's broken machine. 

wandering a maze that cannot be solved. 

wearing our lies in the tightest of knots. 

 the truth is a mountain we're too weak to climb.