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In the dark, I seem to stretch. Without a body to witness, I grow and grow with my pleasure. I feel like a constellation, a concept hung on a scattering of stars.Alaya Dawn Johnson
2
The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.Alaya Dawn Johnson
3
The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.Alaya Dawn Johnson
4
Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.Alaya Dawn Johnson
5
So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.Alaya Dawn Johnson
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Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.Alaya Dawn Johnson