Do you remember when the spaceship came? 

No? 

Of course you don't.

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Do you remember when the spaceship came 
and fired negativity deep into your brain?

No? 

Of course you don't. 

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And do you remember that first vast flight across the planet's surface
and you were so high? And when you looked down everything began to seem the same.

And as you flew they came to you and whispered sweet nothings in your ear.
Until sweet nothings became your way of thinking, your reason for living, your everything.

And now anyone can make a profit selling sweet nothing. 
Because you don't need meaning when you can have sweet nothing.
Do you remember when the spaceship came?

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And do you remember the spaceship had a ceiling filled with stars?
And they stripped you on a marble table and filled you with doubt.

And then you woke at home alone, and the bed and the pillows were
soft as snow but they reminded you of cold stone.

And staring at a ceiling filled with stars 
While they whispered sweet nothings in your ear.

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Do you remember when the spaceship came?

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No?

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Of course you don't.

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© Tobias Zaldua