I am the in here, I am mattering – mattering born to the tempo of moments ago – and ago I was too, I went lumbering order then too, I was lumbering forward like form before now, to the now and the now I came, sorting some slumbering undersound. Listen though: once, at some point, at some time, I just hadn't been, hadn't grown open, was less than a tone – some unstrikeable timbre I must have been only, some stuff of the stuff of the earth underprouded in tangible no-ness, some unsounded bone. I know that at best, to the any-old-stone of the earth I redundantly was in this undering way – but I'm sure I could span no towarding. Nobody forwards there, ever. Nobody mores. Nobody stone ever bumbled an undersound. How in this ground could my hour lie latently? When did I turn with this power, this tone, to the thundering void to reclaim my own forming? Listen – my noise is no storming of stuff! I am the in here! I am mattering merely – but mattering so –
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