texture woven heartsilt pantheon
of whisk together third
cupful fingertips dimple top
cutouts won’t follow the recipe and it
worries you. if it works why change why change why
lofty glutenous rising bubbling are forming eight
won’t you hexagon into shape face is dusty. home won’t
fall away if you leave to hook back up to the mainframe, baked
heaven might. (maybe home will though.) curse your
sodabread ancestors for the addiction gene, have you checked
in with your grandparents? sea, beidh mé (can’t
conjugate right enough nomore) father insolvent
tickets homeland—and bake sodium bicarbonate up to
fix the cracks
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