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Forever Drowning (after D. F. Wallace)

from A Self That Touches All Edges by Sam Sycamore

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Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. The novel has an unconventional narrative structure and includes hundreds of extensive endnotes, some with footnotes of their own.

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These lines are no boundaries
We are what we walk between
All knotted and ragged
Like something a spider had made

Be no one
It's easier than you think
Fences can be mirrors
You can be shaped or you can be broken

Send from yourself
What you hope will not return
Everything falls off the walls
Sooner or later

It's a divine spell, a triangular horror
A self that touches all edges

Forever beginning
Never the end
Forever starting
Starting over again
The sun sets
At summer's end
But summer's always coming back again

Come in from the spectral rain
Those with distorted orbits of all kinds
Do not underestimate objects
Do you trust me?

Trust me
Do not underestimate objects
I hear your request and I will honor it
I began to suspect I was made of glass

My personality's dark part
Had grown leathery wings
And turned on me
I bought time with vague allusions

There is a new silence
Calling into the darkness of the red cave
That opens out before closed eyes
A self that touches all edges

Forever beginning
Never the end
Forever starting
Starting over again
The sun sets
At summer's end
But summer's always coming back again

Forever beginning
Never the end
Forever starting
Starting over again
The sun sets
At summer's end
But summer's always coming back again

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from A Self That Touches All Edges, released June 25, 2015

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formerly Two Istbones, Airplane Jumper, Mote, SG Benanti.

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