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USA
Clutched brimstone surrounding the village populated by the jagged smiles seen each Sunday The pyre is set, but how can they burn when their meat is all but human DOGMA DROWNED OUT BY TV STATIC I HEARD THE WORDS DELIVERED BY EYELESS FACES WHAT DO YOU SEE BEYOND THE CAMERAS WILL YOU STILL SMILE BENEATH A GUILLOTINE BLADE OR WILL YOU WEEP REDDENED SAND INTO A DESERT AS EMPTY AS YOU Scripture stolen out the mouth of a mother forced to carry to term Nothing sacred in a man ****** holy language The same words that preach against demons come from the canals of Babylon; your empire sings annihilation until none are left to hear it EMPTY CHANNELS DEFECATE BLOATED PSALMS INTO A NETWORK GILDED AND GREEDY POCKETS LINED WITH EMACIATED PRAYERS NONE WILL HEAR THEM THE SILENCE IS LOUDER THAN THE CROWD’S APPLAUSE
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Jun 18, 2025
Jun 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM UTC
ALL TELEVANGELISTS MUST DIE
You are an ocean stretching as far and wide as the eye can see. Each violent wave you extend is still brought back into the tides from which it came. You are a calm, peaceful water. Every ripple in your current will become still. The battle beneath your surface is met with peace and patience. You are an ocean stretching as far and wide as the eye can see. You are a calm, peaceful water. Let your currents be calm. Let your storms be quelled. Let your troubles dissolve in the brine. Let yourself go to feel all the life around you. You are an ocean, and a calm, peaceful water.
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Dec 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021 at 3:04 AM UTC
You are an Ocean
Hurdling through dimension; Nameless figures of information screaming Through wormholes of thought. Paralleled to evolution and form, Extraterrestrial knowledge bundled In a prismatic vessel making Its voyage to Earth. O, ancient starchild, Gaze over our blue marble From where you lay in cosmic utero. Observe the apes silhouetted under the sun forging Tools from spears, to bayonets, to missiles. O, human soul, Transport your essence from Mind to mainframe; We worship your digital, crimson gaze Keeping protective watch Over our inefficient, human bodies. Behold: Our lord beyond comprehensible matter, Brought by beings broken and barren, Standing with galactic authority Within a primitive land. We bestow upon you with our most Esteemed welcome; We embrace you, The monolith.
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Nov 27, 2021
Nov 27, 2021 at 11:39 PM UTC
The Monolith
Two rows of a faceless infantry fall into line; I am their general for this callous battle. Overlords awaken; their mirrored armies in meager shadow to these giants that have played the game of winning before. The front rank advances slowly, private by private; caressing the battlefield as if never to return again. The cavalry cry out into the night, A horse’s metallic neigh that pierces through to the other side’s defenses, and the surrounding warriors join in for the hunt. A piece for a piece; The desperate deal is made between the masters of their horrified soldiers. Do I dare repeat such insidious acts within my fleet? The crown shakes with fear, for the opposing ranks are drawing near. Towering higher than the castles upon the deck, I make my way to the monarch in check; Swords left littered across the field as the fires of carnage have dwindled low, but trampling through grief, groans, and woe, The other side is forced to yield.
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Nov 27, 2021
Nov 27, 2021 at 1:39 AM UTC
Kamikaze
The tree bears that fickle fruit; slouched figures swaying in the midnight wind like its leaves above the garden. Ripe and sweet to the core; never satisfied, and wanting more as the sordid souls ignore the elements beyond the door. Hellfire ignites and sandy scripture lies upon the bay, like plastic bits of dogma with infected red resin in its tray. Rotting fingers of snakeskin grasp at survival throughout the day. Make the apple last in cardboard crematories, they pray the temptations of Eden away.
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Nov 24, 2021
Nov 24, 2021 at 2:16 AM UTC
Eden
Ingots of ivory lay piled adjacent to marble plated pillars; Swords championed by forgotten names are dulled in desolate hallways on dark, decaying plaques. Madness melts the walls to his vision; baroque as an honor killing and black as obsidian. He lavishes and bathes in the thorns and bones of dead roses. Guilt floods the cellar and warps the history of those who slept in the iron-clad embrace of rusted chains. His head is too heavy to carry and breaks off onto the grass; The last thing he sees as his eyes glaze over like a beast before the knife is his domain, decaying and dim; Stairways heading nowhere that border dining halls as incinerated as the meats once served there. He sees the moat dried and the garrison speared on their own tools of justice to be left rotting before an eternal Judge. He turns away, however, at the sight of the first Spring buds to erupt from below the soil; So horrified to know that his citadel will be demolished to make way for the next monarch’s garden.
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Nov 22, 2021
Nov 22, 2021 at 8:10 PM UTC
The Citadel
Husk of will And thought; Shallow mannerisms And speech. Two-dimensional thoughts In a flattened valley of perception, And the winds blow in accordance To the way the sky wants it. My throat is made to open, My mouth is gaping wide; No say in keeping from Stuffing myself full Of someone else’s entrails, Forced to devour the guts And grime of a delectable host That makes my opinion for me. Shambling silently, Breathing hollowly, Barely blinking. Circuits breaking, Firmware failing, Makeshift madness. Eyes glazing; Too tired to resist The imposing parasite That engulfs my brain With mindless, empty spaces.
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Nov 22, 2020
Nov 22, 2020 at 11:15 PM UTC
Mind Control
{i. Synapses} A moment’s unfathomable pause; Drifting in polarized rows of orbit As the planets vibrate autonomously. Set courses of motion to fall; Deities of amber marked with gradience In columns separated by generations Of the science of religion; Unbound and with pure neutrality. Neurons connected by stardust mildew On the cosmic breeze of a comet; Sailing by the passing galaxies To the cerebrum of the universe’s Central nervous system. The bridge between logic and reason Is built for the sparkling atoms of thought; Purging doubt and mystery From the corners of our minds, And eliminating the inhibitor of Satanic, and Godly free will. {ii. Purpose} March to the sunrise With the rhythm of a supernova, And rejoice in the lunar light Away from the solar cataclysm. Ritual of space; Thermonuclear, beautiful grace Of the genesis fusion of hydrogen To ultimate iron. Smothered in subatomic promises of creation, The journey of light to shadow Is split apart to reveal its voided entrails Of fractured physics; Never again to show remorse For simply being the messenger Of purpose.
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Nov 8, 2020
Nov 8, 2020 at 2:07 AM UTC
Eclipsed Between Reason
In the end, Listening without learning, Statements without substance, And memories without meaning Will fall out of sight. In the end, Movements without martyrs, Peace without petitions, And sacrifice without suffering Will fall into place. In the end, Lovers without longing, Fighters without fury, And humans without hatred Will come into life. In the end, Dreamers without division, Artists without anxiety, And reachers without restriction Will supplement the land. In the end, Belonging without bias, Feeling without fearing, And making without marring Will sum up the collective. But for the time being, Flaws with folly, Ignorance with imperfection, And compassion with chaos Will remain the certain truths as since The beginning.
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Nov 7, 2020
Nov 7, 2020 at 5:37 PM UTC
In the End
Fingertip aura; her light shines through me And although these words have again been said Repetition a smile, feeling free I dream about her awake in my bed Away; every bright twinkle in her eye Hollows out my skeleton to shy dust Ember a tidal wave; red and blue sky Colors swirl and fall to corroded rust And my hands to her’s, senses allude us Would it matter if blindness came to stay? We see without seeing; feel that all was Time sheds its false fake mask: Night becomes day So into this, we turn inside and two One being a mix; to become all you.
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Apr 20, 2020
Apr 20, 2020 at 11:48 PM UTC
Her