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The Bootstrap
I have built this place to get to her. Projected her like a shadow on my wall. A memory, a ghast, a shade, a thought. And from the fire...

Paul Clive
May 20, 20242 min read
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The Fences
Life is full of ups and downs but sometimes it's also full of indifference, numbness. Sometimes it seems like no matter what we do we...

Paul Clive
Apr 7, 20232 min read
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Rushing
My Heart is Always Rushing It would be more painful to forget More empty to regret Already holding them close Held tight like petals...

Paul Clive
Jan 16, 20232 min read
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One of Them
The omens move without words Like water Across the sky From the East Fire in the mouth And from the ending A new beginning A broken bow...

Paul Clive
Oct 6, 20222 min read
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Mist Taken
Mist Taken A wisp and nothing else Filled up with regrets Fretting with the best of them Melancholy and cut off Shelves all filled the...

Paul Clive
Sep 21, 20221 min read
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Ingredients
Sometimes we mix ourselves a potion of memory and regret and find ourselves wondering what might have been. There is something a bit like...

Paul Clive
Sep 8, 20222 min read
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A River With No Mouth
Patience with ourselves and others is important. You never know what battles people are fighting whether they are in the real world or in...

Paul Clive
Aug 15, 20222 min read
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Chasing the Fog
Born here upside down Branches breaking skin Kin to every wolf Child of every sin Timid on the rooftops Colors coalesce Rushing for the...

Paul Clive
Jun 23, 20221 min read
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Drowning in Hours
Drowning in Hours Maybe in the darkness You can touch the textures The stains on the uniforms unfolding And without eyes see truer colors...

Paul Clive
May 27, 20222 min read
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Disused
No dog in the fight. Beaten down and broken by the world and ready to accept any state of existence that seems even remotely novel or...

Paul Clive
Apr 29, 20222 min read
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Disintegrate
If I could explain it I wouldn't be here again With these colors in my hand And these words on canvases If I could remember I'd find my...

Paul Clive
Feb 25, 20221 min read
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Monsters in Margins
We're off the edge of the map, Jack Of Monsters and Margins Off the edge of the map Where monsters are in the margins The devils in the...

Paul Clive
Feb 19, 20222 min read
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