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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{black out}
  jonathan bitz


If you need to go to New York City to become inspired, Fuck you.
If you need to travel to Paris to become refined, Fuck you.
If you need to go to Barcelona to find adventure, Kill yourself.

There are too many of your tiny kind.
Too many who cannot peel back the ribs
To find the meat.

I say fuck wanderlust.
Chop-off my legs.

What’s important is right here, right now.
Inside and outside this strange and beautiful body.