In which he introduces himself.

[Darfstellar]

Faces crowding around the I
eye to eye
noses on the front of them
and mouths
flapping tongues
like red pillowcases.
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I was diagnosed with
Bipolar II on Wednesday,
October second nineteen
Ninety
Four
At
Five thirty in the afternoon.

But I was always sort of strange.

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Who will I let in a heart of stone?
What traveler will know how a cold stone lies?
What miner will enter a cavern of bone?
What lover will sleep behind these eyes?

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Always is fifty years...................................................................................
...................................................................You know............................
............................................... I tried...................................................
.....................Once...............................................................................
.............................................................................To find out what they....
Knew....................................................................................................
............................................When I was a child but....................................
..........The doctor had died and the................................................................
................................................................................................. records
.........................................................Were sealed away and nobody...............
Was saying..............................................................................................
.................................... Nothing.


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And Art, children, is anything you can get away with.

Darfstellar.

[sycamore]

Interesting intro for sure, very 'artful' indeed!