_______________________________________________________________________________ \\ / / =====> VacHaus provisionals <===== / / a TNtD (Try Not to Die) drop \\ A Poetry tDrop by Wetdryvac _______________________________________________________________________________ Letting the Wrong Ones In February 24, 2019 you know how it goes beet dye making for some art stuff the hum, the hum, a vividly red right hand vibrating under fluorescent light a pause, a pause, time to make the bath bombs the glow, the glow to accidentally explode biodegradable rainbow glitter one ��s self the knock, the knock distractedly answer door wearing hard-beeswaxed longcoat one scent resistant breather because bath bombs of the French revolution just plain stink and still holding that glorious five pound bag factory sealed citric acid camera in the off hand �� when making bath bombs record everything watch, camera eye wide door-to-door religion sales-people fresh black suits and pressed linen shirts fading, fading, utterly ghost pale social blunder, evade, evade invite them in for error, error serve boiled coffee discuss contract/consent ethics gods of old, gods of cold hearts and prisons ignore the gutted kitchen politely decline sales of religion listen to pulses climb harum, harum look, it's boiled coffee I made it three times three or nine times ground an hour on the burner two point five gallons in steel before it feels surreal politely decline white power sales pitch wait what, white power sales pitch was that even real did humans, *censored* humans just tried to sell me on white power was it the coffee kicking in the burning of their hate processed through skin one god to rule the cattle one goad to �� somehow somehow �� what did I invite in it must be fate a thrumming sadness in time with the heat start with a handful of beet paste, then reach into cooling crock pot venison for the win take out a handful eat it drip messily continue to talk completely sanely between bites because one doesn ��t tear out and eat the hearts of the guests in one ��s house even if they claim perfection even if they claim pollution offer them lines of biodegradable glitter critical that it ��s biodegradable wouldn ��t want to contaminate all that impervious skin wouldn ��t want my queer to penetrate them or have the soup of my blood shown less than puritan run afoul of their god here, religion, may we enter, may we begin have you heard the word of the whitest Jesus on the negro sin so let there be madness snort that line of biodegradable rainbow glitter welcome it, welcome it in as my salvation, deer stain tickling my face like Hearn brain ticking along inside maybe this was a terrible idea but the guests have arrived the guests are in a job that needs doing observe that the coffee the psychological damage has begun to tick switch to Russian take out apple juice glasses fill those glasses clean up to the top home-infused smoked tea vodka with six weeks of steeping ginger flavor of the crucifixion tongue nailed thus to speak no ill of one ��s visitors while they remain however they be blessed cry out, "На здоровье!" pour most of vodka down the front biodegradable rainbow tears leaving black wax tracks wouldn ��t want more than just a touch for flavor, for veneration to pass my lips slam glass on counter underlayment panel breaks, chipboard flakes drifting slow ��Drink! �� observe in amazement where most sane men would, perhaps polite sip and decline this scalar impedimentia these imbibe one does not predict Moby Dick macho struggling, struggling through each glass their mission branded upon their foreheads slick with sweat and me, polite smile stitched to my face whisper mantra within do not come into my house to sell your sacred apartheid your breach major, expecting anything less than my best come guests, another glass by the gods you claimed for entry I offer you self-destruction in sixteen ounce lots and the salvation of grey sick so glad you said at the door how you walked how you walked up to my home my sanctuary carrying poison yes, the power of macho compels you that show of strength, that pale taint so let there be insanity bring your hate to my home and sixteen ounces to the glass I will host your resurrection and show you the very devil come, товарищ, let me refill your glass the glow, the glow let it mark your brow the glow, the glow let it forever show where you have been mistaken at last another glass �� and no ��We have to go �� and go, just go mantra murderous below unspoken get the fuck out of my house ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: With thanks to the good folks at Hackers.Town for answering the very n00best of questions, with the following people politely [REDACTED]. 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