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Viola Warbeck ([personal profile] tristfully) wrote in [community profile] peckenpaugh2020-05-06 07:52 pm
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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.


Martin Walls




[.......]

Will someone please tell me the steps to unlocking the memory inside of a cicada shell? Succinctly.
lionellovelace: (πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»- 030)

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[personal profile] lionellovelace 2020-05-07 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Should we be trying to unlock our cicadas too?
I'm not sure anymore.
That's not a 'no.' It's an 'I don't know.'
nublada: ((t) GUY)

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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I [...] do really want to figure it out. I'm just curious, and it seems like the only way to get more information without actively [...] harming people.
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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
do you think that like all the weeds getting worse is bc people are fuckin with these bugs tho
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[...] I don't know. We probably should have asked at the sΓ©ance. [...] But maybe it was only a matter of time before things came to light.
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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe we should go find the smarmy gryphonbeat bug and ask HIM what happens??

either way better to know than not know in the end right
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, let's! [...] I'm not sure where to find him, but if we do let's not tip our hand and tell him how many we have in our collective possession.
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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
pocket always comes when you yell about parties so maybe we just need to run around campus yelling about [...] hair product

i bet he uses a lot
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I think we have enough hair product in our dorm alone to make an entirely new bug-person if we really want. Let's bring him a welcome home present!
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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
oh hell yeah he's gonna love us or at least be unable to forget our names and faces for the rest of his days
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[personal profile] lionellovelace 2020-05-07 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He also likes candy, right? Or least that's what the rumors always were.
And based on the other night, he likes the cold, too.
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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
oh i bet that dude would love the hell outta some ice cream then huh
i'll bring a pint
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[personal profile] lionellovelace 2020-05-10 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[...] Maybe two? We might get hungry.