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A powerful venom slips into and out of the mind;
we are not sleeping. There are noises and a voice
and, alert, we are open to a rage unsuspected even
when we raged. It is like a beautiful commandment
that fills us with hope, with abundance when we
surrender to its taste. It fits into thin-folds of
our mind and hides until it hears a secret word
passed through the streets by the secret people.
And so the venom drops and expands rapidly through
the mind, driving out the deer and meadows that had
filled the memory in the off-day. Snakes and enraged
genie swirl through the mind. We are driven to the
desire to destroy those who taunt us; those who we
feel hold some secret message that contains the key to
happiness. Or, the key to our eternity. Or, the key to
our illusions. While we are intoxicated we are in pain
and driven into the grove of White Oak trees where
there is spirited singing. They tell us then, "do not
move rapidly; let the blood cool down."
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