ARRIVING. SLEEPS FOR HOURS
STIMULANT WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 012 // AUGUST 24, 2024
Arriving. Sleeps for hours.
Walking around through shafts of trees across the water down to Ica (Swedish grocery store)
Ate dinner in a small town named Tindered. Saw the fat stupid seal
through the binoculars. It is completely stupid (r word). We walk
across a terribly long bridge
Children breathe and gather courage to,
with their hands, to hug the electric fence
It has taken several hours.
Nothing happens. Cow blinking eye
I came up with that little detail.
Using my phone as a hotspot
It makes a small sound, the washing machine
It's only forty minutes anyway
Who's watching the onions on the stove Watch it
I want the defense and the armchair
You must not - I will put
On the water. You must not
Eat on the couch
You poke the fire. Leaves. Lots and lots of them
It's a shame it had to be this way
Such a young woman. Maybe not promising,
But young. Discarded. That's a lot of talk
For someone who is Dead
Girls love to say things like Stockholm is a dog eating my hands and guys reply something like there must be something warmer than a rapeseed (canola) field. One day. about the hasty seriousness.
The big one
Sticky car
Stops under the
Basking in the sun Walking barefoot
The Glasses Up The Nose Hill
Bronze Little Hill The Car Faster Up
AND A COUNTRY LIFE
WITH EXPENSIVE MEAT AND
ANOTHER FLOOR FILLED
WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT CHAIRS
A FLAT SCREEN TV FOR 400KR
AND A WOMAN WITH A PIG ON IT if
at some point you have to
have to stop joking
at some point. that elasticity
that is not in
but behind two little
spider eyes
no
no
under that plastic like a sky
a thin such layer unclear
red marinade, the moist
ARRIVING. SLEEPS FOR HOURS was edited by Charlie Zacks.
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