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The walls aren't really breathing.
The neon crayons aren't really glowing like lightsabers.
The blanket isn't actually sparkling.
I know there isn't really a purple train outside the window.
If I open the window and step outside, I will fall to the ground where the dried grass cuttings from the freshly mown lawn aren't really spelling out sanskrit secrets half erased as if by a giant pencil eraser.

And beneath the ground, barely visible to human perception, a giant spiderweb certainly is not thrumming and pulsing with the heartbeat of the planet, it's crimson strands connecting every living thing.

I know this.
I know it's just the mushrooms.
I know it's just my own heartbeat.
But that doesn't make it any less profound.
Maybe…
Maybe it makes it MORE profound.

It feels like I'm somewhere else, driving this body around my apartment with a joystick. Like it's only a game. Also, I can't seem to stop narrating my every move. Everything is fascinating. I open my front door, hear a car drive past, immediately panic and go back inside to lie down in my bed where the sunset is painting my ugly wood panelling walls with too many shades of purple.

The infinite harlequin timeworm faces of Messrs. Six and Quimper emerge from the ceiling and reassure me that it will all be okay. It's just the psilocybin causing perceptual distortions in my brain's prefrontal cortex. It's what I wanted. This is the desired effect. It's perfectly safe. The nausea is normal.

Remember to breathe.

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from Invisible Songs: A Soundtrack for the Supercontext, released July 12, 2021

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Mayhem Lettuce Port Byron, Illinois

Mayhem Lettuce was formed in Port Byron, IL in 1993 when two sad teenage boys decided to channel their angst into music.
That music sits at the crossroads of King Missile and Portishead with a dash of The Cure and a pinch of They Might Be Giants.

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