layers

if you peel back the layers of metaphorical brilliance you’ll simply find a string of words placed in subjective order from least important to most. That’s usually how these things go – they start off weak and climax at some point of epiphany. If you peel back the layers of a human heart, I wonder if it’s the same – the least important things at the surface, and the meaningful stuff at the core. I don’t know, but I do know that if I were an orange or an orange were me, and some hungry passerby were to inquire after the likelihood of acquiring me, I would bleed profuse uncertainty at the first prick of his fingernail.

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