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Tantalus
01:01
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Necks craned at impossible angles
Trying to kiss the water swirling
Up to my chest
Before they meet
It flows away
Endless thirst/tomorrow, today
The long eternity
Of suffering waits
We’ve only got ourselves to blame
For expecting better
Expecting anything
Lips cracked
And lined like maps
I’d eat the bark from the trees
If I could reach it
Sapless and asking
Wailing and expecting
To be full from the scraps
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2. |
Carapace
04:49
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My fucking back, hunched like a crab
Bent over punching at keys that punch back
Curled like a question, i can’t stop asking
Body arched inward
Nautilus curl
Face full of glass (I should really clean this)
Knuckles so cracked and raw
Absolute disconnect from all
Except stimulus/response
The end is not in sight
On retainer
Stiff fingers
Off balance
Upper right corner, the eyes
A twitching habit
Joints fusing together with a ligament
Snappened piano string
Scrabbling claws on the ocean floor
Leagues between here and sun
When i come up for air
I can feel it all pulling down
Unreality without
A raw impression of doubt
I’ve stared so long that
I can't make out the details
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3. |
Schadenfreude
04:18
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Statues made of cedar rise
Divinity through destruction
Waiting for each other to writhe in the silt and
Begging for the freshest cut of horse meat
Earth slipping through my hands
Dull reflexes can not compete
Choke on this
bitter pill
A truth that’s told
With watery eyes
Dueling titans
Dying for the exceptional
Echoing whistles rattle
Taking refuge in the waste
Speaking from both sides
Of your mouth
The humid air holds sad words
Crust under the nails
Fine print in the wind
Speaking out of turn in the dark
Parading around in someone else’s jewels
Of sad men
And sadder lives still
Your hand over my mouth
Invalid
My hand over your mouth
Invalid
Pissing up a rope
With nothing left to hold
But a ladder without rungs
Interlocking
Invalid
Shatter smiles
And teeth waving
Like white flags
In the wind
Bending under the speech
Twist and turn
To be unheard
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4. |
Denial
00:52
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You can hear the bonds
Snap like bones
Echo like screams
Through a burning home
No one
Gets out alive
Shake the limbs
The rhythm cuts into me
A perfect view atop the ruins
To see my old home
You can hear the bonds
Snap like bones
Ignore the screams
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5. |
Colonizer
09:25
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Pale white, tentacled blight
Unwrapped from cold caves
With big blinding eyes
Seeing only glory to horde and gifts
Pried from offering hands
Unwanted
Hammers and jaw screws
Choking on foreign black powder
Circling buzzards
Around the cape
A last gasp
Through loosely sewn openings
A crushed cage
Entropy of iron
In a new vacuum
Sucking the poison out
Bursting soil, plowed over fields
Of bones and shattered clay
It builds nothing
Only takes
Manifesting a destiny
To chase and justify
Centuries of horror
Running from over the horizon
In desperate need of the sun
Disintegrate while standing
Under class/under grass
Irrigated with blood
Of a forgotten past
Soon it will grow
Faster than it can be cut back
This glacier spreads
And throws down stones
That land without a plan
Shackler
Stumbler
Racking
The enemy lives within
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6. |
Exhalation
03:57
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Roots coiled
Coarse and twisted
Dragging a rusted fork through the salted soil
Breathe in the filth; kicked up
The pain is a scathing circle
Crawling up through the skeletons and
Limping into the sunrise
Where it walks the plants pull back
Dried out dust fields
Sending clouds of contagion
Withered woods and polluted waters
Inexorable, unstoppable
Woven into the fabric of life itself
There’s no other way to live so breath it
In deep
Lungs of the world
Blackened branches swirl
Up and up to blot out the sun
The forest rom the sky
Lapses into benighted senescence
As the boundaries come undone
There’s nowhere the market can’t penetrate
Idiot self replication
Blind ambition
Fooling ourselves
Into mass proliferation
At the rocket’s termination
The attention will refocus
To the sharpest blades pressed against the softest necks
Commodified mercy
Stretched between classes
“Where is this going”
Remain disposable
An auction to be drained
Name your price and be undersold
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