Bleakness

The Bleakness is in those moments when I am reminded that everyone thinks I did wrong.  Sometimes it happens in general conversations, the meaning behind the spoken words.  Not always unkindnesses, usually just carelessness.  It takes a while for the words to infest, and for me to scuttle to aloneness in the Bleakness.  And the only escape is to wear the Bleakness like an emperor's new clothes.  Or to run like fuck, never look back.

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