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telephone call transcript

NOTE: the formatting is completely off because i can’t change the alignment, just imagine the bold and italic words are right and left aligned respectively

[ringtone]

hi, this is (inaudible).

( hello this is me here on the other side of the world grabbing a telephone wire like a lifeline and ) 

who is this?

it is very easy to crush even a pearl in your mouth when you know that your teeth are just skeletons anchored in your skin that want to devour. and everyone knows hunger is another form of religion ! wish i was eating oranges with you and peeling them and leaving the last piece for you and kissing the inside of your wrist until the tenderness is swallowing us whole , this black hole world with its gaping mouth.

( i've seen the end of the world in that split second of crystalline consciousness and i know the world ends softly!.. we have both seen the darkness but i would like to see the dawn. and see here is a riverbed i stole for you see here is the only way i know how to love, rawboned and aching and rough for you. )

YOU'RE A HEART ATTACK and i could feel like a heart if you looked at me long enough. i am a reckoning a second life that overlaps the first the leaf clutched in your fist staining your hand green i'm the eye of the bird lying dead on the ground in winter you're a god and i am not even a name. 

[crackling laughter] 

sorry, could you say that again? (inaudible murmur) 

the connection's getting weak can you hear me 

[static]

oh, you're breaking up, i'll call you back angel, (I LOVE YOU LIKE A FIFTH LIMB) goodbye.

wai–

[beep]

[dial tone]