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Juvenilia: Amaranthus caudatus
Why does attention so fondly take hold / when ever new moonflower buds / on lonely land cleared of the last's marigolds
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Juvenilia: ***** by a Vampire
The hole spews out disease and rot / devoid of fleshy substance / Engrossed by such a gruesome plot
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Juvenilia: Derivative Yield
Born free, / what have you been branded to buy as truth? / You couldn't help but consume the prime conditioning,
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Longing
I've been counting cold seconds / Slowing will without her heat, / Growing space between each beat
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Juvenilia: Joanna
His Holy Empire / At the heart of sacred grounds, a shaft of ivory rises / and reigns atop a throne of clouds, where veil of white disguises
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Juvenilia: Minimally Waged
If precious time to freely spend / is all that you could offer me, / with a great deal, I must contend;
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Juvenilia: Don't Settle for Settling Down
After all that toil, my journey is through. / I am home, to wander no longer. / My success has born such rich rewards.
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Wistfully Ignorant
Careful, now, 'lest silence shatter / barricades that hold the heart / and blind to my unchecked desires
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Juvenilia: Prelude and Interludes from "His Holy Empire"
Prelude: / How could this have come to be, this life, so ever-changing? / these laws that pushed the smallest things to pull the greatest mountains?
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No. 2
All potency for pain and pleasure binds, / Confined to freely ebb from causal shell; / Then, urged by current convalescing mind
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