1. Analyst A said
2. You don’t need to work so hard
3. Please ease up
4. Take breaks
5. Happy sessions are okay
6. Analyst B says
7. We don’t blast through defenses
8. Defenses are there for a reason, we respect them
9. But I say
10. How can I not work
11. Hard
12. How can I not want to be thrown into
13. The deep end of the mucky pool
14. When
15. Flames are licking my heels
16. The ground underneath is splitting open
17. I see nothing in the next hour but
18. My extinction
Painting by Peggy Lee (detail)
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