I stood still and said: What is this? / Why do you lie here so quietly?

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When we rose up from the murky water / we'd scale it like lizards.

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Skeletons in our minds, it’s a private grief, a private grief, you hear.

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Once I learned the club was in proximity to the crash site, my obsession with calculating the distance between the two quickly overtook any other interest. The sedimentary layers of history, and how close they are to the surface, give me vertigo. I wanted to feel time spin.