He hears it again, like whispers but of the mind. The voice in his head says he's dying and he shakes it off angrily, not done trying. I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine, but he feels the hands of despair making tugs at his spine, needing only to convince him to try one more time. Valuing freedom remaining confined, falling prey to his apathy on 5 to 9's. And he grinds and he grinds forgetting how to unwind, a man who moves serpentine forced to follow straight lines. His body quakes near implosion when the reaper says "it's time," life discontinued pennies and death looks like a dime, and that’s the thing, he doesn't wish to rewind, a phantom stranger trying to leave a timeline. Like a true ocean spirit, a master of crying, so hard to FUCKIN walk when you're meant to be flying. Taking any hint of beauty as a positive sign because it's hard to make time to keep chakras aligned. A haunted Gypsy ghost who's life is actually mine.