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2024

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Wake up in a cot under the eyes of Baroque pale-skinned babies, does not annoy me, but it confirms the irritability of my being.

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Angels weep with happiness that human life is happening above them as well, and the heavens are opened not only by the wrath of God.

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The baby’s stinking tear rolled through his lovely roundabouts and fell in sinister proximity to me.

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We should move the cot closer to the door. But my uncle often goes to the bathroom at night.

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The Angels remind Louisa of something. Her child’s face doesn’t fit her physical exterior, just like this room’s ailment of a pastoral painting over my head. It’s the other way around.

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The uncle seems to be trying to bypass my corner. I folded the cot and wiped the gloom off my face.

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How did I eat? How did I wash? I don’t remember much about myself. Sometimes it seems like my life goes by in pieces. It’s amazing how fast I forget what’s going on with me.

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English isn’t easy for me. I’m learning the phrases. After school, there’s only one sadness left in my head. This is a torture by boredom and pointlessness.

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I’m on a bus to Louisa, and I want to show her the green house. We go there to burn diaries. Maybe you should drown them, though. Why does fire always accompany rituals? I don’t think the house needs any offerings. But I still keep a diary.

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We’re standing on the doorstep. She’s looking at the door. «Come on?» I pushed the door. The green paint scraps stuck to my hand. She went inside.

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Our feet have drowned into black. I think this is where the floor goes to nothing.

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I reached for thousands of needles in my hand. I don’t even know what I touched. Louise looked at me like she was drowned in air.

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She looks like she’s tied to the floor. The lips have put out some words. I sat on the hooks to disappear in the dark. I’m always dreaming about how I pat on Louisa’s hair. But Louise herself isn’t there.