Stone Soup

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Trapeze, 5/1/2020

I want to fly away inside my head, to a theatre where i can sit in the dark. in the dark i can sit inside a theatre in my head. i’d rather fly to a theatre than the dark inside my head. i could fly away from the theatre and into the dark, rather that than be inside my head. flying in the dark is a theatre inside, but a real one would be better. my head is in the dark and if i could sit in a theatre i could fly away inside.

even if the theatre is little, my head can make me fly. the theatre can make my head fly a little. make the little theatre fly. my head makes the theatre.

But a real one would be better than sitting in my head.