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Breed
February 4, 1992

as I child I sat in bed
counting the cracks in my ceiling
taking time to memorize them
fearfully
knowing that when memory faded
all manner of legged things could crawl free
low and slimy
dropping into my bed
with claws and teeth that spite
putrescent with a stinging poison
forgetful in their minds
so I left the light on
watched the number of the cracks
and sleeping days for a time
where the evil things hate sun

and now –
oh, for the foolish childhood
found not so forgetful after all
counting not crack now, but the things with claws
ticking in the walls
and though they did not get me
the ticking continues in my sleep
wrong things gone more wrong
harvesting my dreams

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from Scattered Resistance v5 - Inluminal, released October 20, 2012

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Wetdryvac is a consulting device, a musician, and a free will procedural ethicist. This makes for some seriously odd material from time to time, much of which is worked with here as Wetdryvac's Lair.

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