mk zariel
i was a teenage caricature

is the might of restraint closing in on me simply

a problem of synaesthesia? of this Autistic mind making life

hellish for its inhabitant—or is this unshakable weight

about statism? apparently the control industry &

gatekeepers well versed in verbal bandages

in therapy speak, conditioning into agony

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mk zariel
The Quietude of Horror

a review of

Snow Day by Willow Page Delp. The Amazine, 2023 theamazine.com

You stare at oblivion or maybe just at your social life—a sky darkening from blue to black, a group of college students fighting over foraged meals, a building decaying—and wonder what to believe. This is a snow day, but something more, too, a bonding experience that can only shatter and release you. When you belong somewhere, or maybe more often when you don’t, “things [have] to erupt.”

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