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Maxwell Getting On Side

“’You can teach some things about it. The poetry you can’t teach.’”
—David Hockney in ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Naughty Boy: David Hockney’, John Mortimer,
In Character

My gargantuan friend circle is important to my truth.
I like Kendrick Lamar and Carhartt but I am not sure
On Eminem anymore so I keep quiet.
I am blindsided by my own colour.
Cities are the key to ending the monopoly of small towns, big industry and independent serial monogamy.
I’m joking! I say dogmatic things so convincingly just to riddle myselves.
I do not want mass surveillance. I do not wish to listen to anything outside myself either.
My therapist said this is safe; so don’t be toxic? He had a huge following in Jonestown.
My echo chamber is me knowing of people in Brighton and Berlin; and having driven between the two, I understand class issues are class issues for people I won’t be looking out the window at again.
I have now listened to Kendrick more closely
And… and I’m not sure.
But my date still likes him? Sweet!
My relationship does not fit into a sociological framework.
Your relationship is a testament to my sociological framework.


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