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Literary

[POETRY] Gemini Confliction

QUINN NOVA

Staff Artist

THis vision Becomes Irritating

Poking, prodding, putrid, pulsating

Asking if I’ve “found it yet?

Always breathing down my neck

Looming over my every move 

“They’ve all found it, why can’t you?” 

Toss me, turn me, round and round 

Clock keeps ticking, can’t stand the sound

Where am I supposed to go?

What is there for me to show? 

Have you

Heavy choices weigh down my skin

Now it’s tearing and wearing thin

Whiplash grinds my vertebrae 

This or that way? I can’t say 

HAVE

I could run or I could stay

All I want is to get away

Winter’s melting, summer’s frozen 

I’m so dizzy and still unchosen 

YOU FOUND

Lungs constrict, my lips turn blue

My brain is mush, I’m a sickly hue

Rotten, stagnant, stuck in time

The vision claws at my weary mind

HAVE YOU FOUND-

No late-night epiphanies

Nor moments of clarity

Forever forking paths ahead

And fig tree allegories in my head

HAVE YOU FOUND IT?

NO.

I have not found It! 

Only that I’m too malleable

And that I have the urge to do it all

Experience everything 

While confined to nothing

Many facets 

Many paths and

Cloudy visions, ideas vague 

My story’s written day by day

Labels won’t stick this metamorphic flesh

And limitations can only oppress 

Boxes can’t hold ever-growing bones

Fuck, just call me “Jack”, and let me roam

My roots will never grow too deep

Air and wind control my feet

Your single purpose is not for me 

I am endless, fleeting, forever 

Free

Q.N.

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