01. Writer
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Kathryn Gillespie

02. Theme
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Found

03. MUSIC INSPIRATION
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The Mountain Goats:
Family Happiness

04. WRITING
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Stasis in Cycle

You are listening to dead people all the time.
I’m trimming my cuticles with exacto knives 
while louder ghosts play on our radio,
clutching hard won figments of me, 
though I always cycle back 
to fatal worst, dipping toes 
in acid again, screaming
I tried my best
to learn. 

We bury conflicts quick in unmarked graves, 
sleep uneasy in beds unmade with strife, 
rest our heads on mirrors painting 
our whispers just too soft to know
where this spiral starts 
and who it dredges 
down. 

I’ll crack my face with raging tears. 
You’ll find me a pinned butterfly
marked in inefficient
pattern, singing odes to
circling carrion 
birds.