First things first.

That was always how it had been; cause and effect, trip and fall, inhale and exhale.

(Slice and bleed.)

But that was just natural, just the way things were and how they had been and will be, because they just made sense. Everything had to make sense to exist, and to exist it had to make sense. Just like that.

(Bleed and drip.)

Because otherwise, without this sensible lineup, the world would collapse in on itself. And nobody wants that. We all want the world to stay as it is, round and spherical and not going up in flames. Not burning.

(Drip and splat.)

Not gone.

(Splat and spatter.)

Just like you have to turn up the volume to get loud music. Just like you have to witness violence to become violent. Like you have to breathe to bleed.

(Spatter and spray.)

Breathe and bleed, that’s it...breathe and bleed.

(Spray and stain.)

Breathe and bleed and inhale and exhale and inhaledrip exhalespatter. That was just how it went.

(Stain and wash.)

Because to bleed you needed oxygen, and to get oxygen you had to breathe, and to breath you needed...

(Wash and burn.)

Needed what?

(Burn and inhale.)

To inhale. And to inhale...

(Inhale and fly high.)

You needed to exhale.

(High and crash.)

And to exhale you needed to inhale.

And to inhale you needed to be crazy, or maybe just high. Because you would have to be, wouldn’t you, to breathe in just to bleed, to bleed just to burn? Because that’s crazy.

(Crash and burn.)

And so am I.

(Burn and love.)

(“I’m in love.”)

Wow. That was...morbid.

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