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laneaconite · 6 months

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About the State of the World

All I’ve ever wanted is to keep the words flowing through my fingertips. To engineer worlds, Captivating and spellbinding. But just open the window and look at ours outside: It’s burning.

The road beside the house is blocked off in the night Strobing red and blue in warning As the rain pummels potholes into the asphalt, Transforming roads into rivers.

I am told: it isn’t suppose to be like this here. I am told: this is a once in a lifetime Storm. Fire. Natural. Disaster. It’s snowing in LA, In Texas. The Mediterranean is on fire.

I don’t know, how can I create? How should my words be heard over the screams of thousands Dying, in this state of the world?

-Lane Aconite,

March 21st, 2023

#poetry #my work #lane archives #y'all might remember these events happened last yr in rapid succession & it scared the shit out of me. every new year it's so jarring #to watch severe weather warnings & deadly floods level parts my city (much worse this yr) as everyone around mumbles about how #this never happens. when this is the only thing I've seen happen since I got here. when will you wake up & smell the roses burning #when I was a child I started writing as escapism from the horrors of reality but now I can't ignore it anymore #always said I'd never get involved in politics but then my continued existence became political so here I am #I'll keep being the bulldozer & staying alive

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