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Who are you? Unwanted inhabitant. Belongings of a corrupt disposition are thrown haphazardly around my home. You prod and poke, mocking my inability to fall in line. As I pull, rendered powerless, at the mental strings that attach your spiteful words to my feeble mouth. And so you begin. To fabricate our identity; twisting and bending and pulling at your own pleasure. A misshapen hoax. “What is your name?” Lie, you say. “I’m leaving.” Cry, you say. No matter the toxicity of their company, we endure their momentary charm. For it enchants us, and fills us with feeling. Your authoritative grip on my mind becomes unbearable, force-feeding me foreign emotions and misplaced conclusions, I am no longer the author of my thoughts. Stricken by relentless torture, I collapse. My mentality invaded by the creators of torment. A mass of wailing voices beg me to scream, to free me of the agony I have been submerged in. “But wait,” You say, “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” And so I laugh.

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