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Electrical Room


by Darryl Price


It's not so much you enter the world at 
your own risk, but that who knows where it all 
goes to when you've been so strangely deserted 
inside the mother ship itself. Don't 
bother to name the villains, we all know
 
their phony daytime names. The electrical 
room is yours only as long as you  
use it to conduct yourself according 
to your own deepest feelings. Otherwise, 
it stays captured in a loop of trapped wires 

and greedy impulses by others and 
their trained monsters. Why is that so hard to 
figure out? They've made their mess and now they 
want to add you to the strangled circuitries. 
It's a crime, but who's looking out for 

truth these days? I'll run away with you. Doesn't 
that make the most sense? We didn't come 
here for comfort, but to open our eyes. 
You know there's something more, something better. 
We didn't come here to say goodbye either. 

We didn't come here to be left all 
sad and alone. The ways of heaven and 
of hell sometimes cause the same problem. It's 
a perfect storm in a box, but it's still 
like a bee sting waiting to happen. I 

know no one cares if you live or die, but 
I care. I know no one is coming to 
save us, but I believe you can save you. 
I believe in magic, but I wouldn't 
wish it upon anyone who isn't 

ready to face the horse's teeth. And besides, 
you are the only magic that really
matters in the end. I want to be your 
poet friend, but I don't need you to tell 
me what that means. I need you to trust that

it is love. It should end there, in salvation, 
but it won't because we are brought up on 
self doubt and a stubborn refusal to
forgive. We fall out of love when we give 
in to the negative narrative of 

fear sponsored hate as the only way to 
live. Don't let go until you're ready. Don't 
be pushed into the current by the river 
unless you choose to go that way. Don't 
be sad. At this very moment we have 

found each other, floating in these words together. 
Remember. Those things we used to 
say have already been added to the 
overall vibration of the universal 
distance. That makes the difference. 

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