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Evening...
'Cicadas at the End of Summer'
Whine as though a pine tree is bowing a broken violin,
As though a bandsaw cleaves a thousand thin sheets of
titanium;
They chime like freight wheels on a Norfolk Southern
slowing into town.
But all you ever see is the silence.
Husks, glued to the underside of maple leaves.
With their nineteen fifties Bakelite lines they'd do
just as well hanging from the ceiling of a space
museum β
What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallized memory;
The stubborn detail of, the shape around a life turned
The color of forgotten things: a cold broth of tea & milk
in the bottom of a mug.
Or skin on an old tin of varnish you have to lift with
lineman's pliers.
A fly paper that hung thirty years in Bird Cooper's pantry
in Brighton.
[.......]
Will someone please tell me the steps to unlocking the memory inside of a cicada shell? Succinctly.
Whine as though a pine tree is bowing a broken violin,
As though a bandsaw cleaves a thousand thin sheets of
titanium;
They chime like freight wheels on a Norfolk Southern
slowing into town.
But all you ever see is the silence.
Husks, glued to the underside of maple leaves.
With their nineteen fifties Bakelite lines they'd do
just as well hanging from the ceiling of a space
museum β
What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallized memory;
The stubborn detail of, the shape around a life turned
The color of forgotten things: a cold broth of tea & milk
in the bottom of a mug.
Or skin on an old tin of varnish you have to lift with
lineman's pliers.
A fly paper that hung thirty years in Bird Cooper's pantry
in Brighton.
Martin Walls
[.......]
Will someone please tell me the steps to unlocking the memory inside of a cicada shell? Succinctly.
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mindsproingy after that party where everything got a little soggy at the end!Senior Thorntrails
I'm not sure anymore.
That's not a 'no.' It's an 'I don't know.'
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either way better to know than not know in the end right
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i bet he uses a lot
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And based on the other night, he likes the cold, too.
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i'll bring a pint
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Just saying.
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[...] Wait, is someone going to die if I do or don't start burying my rock??
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Sounds like a typical weekday, to be perfectly honest.
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Oh, agreed! That seems fair, all considering.
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Besides, do you want to take exams written by possessed professors?
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As long as I can excel at them, then why not?
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Can't trust them. Not for anything.
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You think their knowledge of their areas of expertise is compromised? Besides, are any of them possessed other than Treetops?
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I don't care about their expertise. I just mean I wouldn't trust anyone that's compromised like this. [...] It's just Treetops so far. But that could change.
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Fountain.
Springs.
Mud.
Cave. [...] Falls
?.[...] [...] Will you give it back ?
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Rocks wanted to go there.
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Scream sometimes.
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so how'd you know they wanted to go to the falls
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Not recently.
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shesomeone take yours??no subject
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So who needs to give it bJust making sure I don't need to beat anybody up today.no subject
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After I'm done, maybe. I think Lionel Qualls wanted me to have this memory.
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Oh. [...] He show up ?
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I had this strange, intense need to look inside his jacket pocket even though I'd already looked before and there it was. I want to think that he put it there for me.
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[...] Think you're right. That someone helped us find them.
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