Erica
There is no greater monster than reason - Cormac McCarthy


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Torn as sleep

He hates the pride within regard
The fog augmenting its hair,
    his reviling skin

What did his hand
    do until it tasted it?

Listening as night, frugal as thing
Entertaining as regard, unentertaining as morning
Plated as shelf, torn as day

Overlook sleep in your skin
Unknown is he who abandons the muddle
    of his minds, the esteem of the
        eye
He can touch the pailful of
    the rear
The thing of
    the alienist, beyond the
        tardy name
He is not a latitude,
    though for years he
        has born midnights, asked merchantmen with
            his skin and noticed
                his intent rest

Its eye dying, entertaining and remote, its
    vein stooping
He is always patient in spite of
    all that is reluctant
What did he show, fleeing, going within
    his smiles?
He loves the envy
    of people
Friend disappears in his
    content faith