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oculiquetzal
24/F
It was last night That the sun was still out, and you told me to die And the afternoon before, where you assured me I was yours in truth. It was the night before, then, that I was violated by someone I knew not. His face, alien, and his body vile I felt as though I'd never breathe again. The day before then, I went on a date But it was amid a thick cloud Or perhaps in a mist, or a fog And I didn't see her face. I suppose I knew her, from the night prior But her name escaped me As did the ground, while on my way to the store before I woke up, or went to sleep. It takes no less than 12 hours for everything to change irreparably, and for the stupor to come and sweep away all, and 12 more for that to be undone. I am sleeping, without dreaming, and I'm dreaming, without dreams. It's all the same, in the end, but not knowing... It really makes all the difference, when everything crumbles, and I'm indifferent because I've told myself it's unreality. Tonight, when I go to sleep, will I see you? And will you truly be there? And will I even truly be there? I suppose there's no telling.
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Dec 28, 2025
Dec 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM UTC
What are dreams?
Whirling, in incessant motion Circular, wrung out, excreting waste The sacred body, the holy conductor Of the forbidden, heretical "I" Motions of intensity, lines and speed In the face of abstract, scurrying rats Face, the truly curious abomination The single versus the several Molecules revolving rapidly, rabidly A veritable molecular-revolution The many fluids of langue Flowing languidly through rapids Lanquidity, flux in meaning Or meaning, nothing by nature Likeness only, not even Nature Not machinic, purely artificial What is meant by "I disappear"? An order, perhaps, not observation Observed, of course, and obeyed I disappear! I am no longer! No longer what? No longer I! A becoming, or unbecoming A decision between void and oblivion Will you meet me on the other side?
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Sep 24, 2024
Sep 24, 2024 at 1:01 PM UTC
Analyzing-Self-Analyzing
I see the devil in all things. It's not even particularly well-hidden, not like some trick of the imagination or a disguised magician, it's hiding in plain sight to me. Not the sort of devil that a cult may tell you of, not some huge, red demon with the beard of a goat, but something more primal. Fear. Loathing. Hatred. Something malicious, something insidious, something downright disgusting is hiding amongst all which touches the light I walk upon. An idea of evil, a form of maleficence, an essence of carnage, a torment of the psyche. I walk unlit roads towards a house which does not feel like a home. I see it within the groups of youngins that shout, scream and stare me down like a starving, broken hound. I see it in the lonely old man with the fishing hat and the widest, deepest wrinkles one could ever see. He approaches and I feel the cold, biting sting, then the twist, and the switchblade enters my belly. Something is ruptured, I am sure, and I will bleed to death right here, under the inviting smile of an evil moon, on this playground I've trod upon so many times. But no, no, the warm gushing of blood simply does not come as he passes me, the cold is all-encompassing and stark and I realize the blade never came out, it was merely his stare, his essence that penetrated my stomach so violently. I see it in the mother and father that walk near me. I know all they could think about was tearing me apart, bit by bit, inch by inch, biting into my flesh and carving me up like a pig, putting me down with a pickaxe to the forehead like a workhorse. All that was keeping them back was the child on the father's shoulders, so young, so clean, so pure, untainted by such evil. But it'll grow. It will become an adult someday. And woe is me if I see them then. But I do have good news, I do! There is not much left of this path, so short, so narrow, so hard upon the soles of my boots. Soon I can walk inside and experience once again how ghastly, isolated, frozen, lifeless. Truly despicable is this room. There is no home within this house. The devil is in all things, but some things different than others. The walls used to laugh at me but now they stare in silence. They know better than to scare me now. They instill these images of specters coming to **** me in my sleep, but without a word. They do not speak to me, for they know what will happen if I am simply left to my own devices long enough. Clever is this old devil, it is, for it knows its greatest weapon in this war against me is itself the subject. It knows, it does, that one day, one miserable, gray day, under the clouds that block out even that disgusting moon that carries me, that smiles with me, that accompanies me better than any man ever did, I will do its bidding for it. I will simply have had enough and I will leave, and it will greet me with a grin that could harm a man in its sly and smug luminosity. But that day has not come, that day is not today, and the future is as grim and unseemly as the past, almost like they bleed into each other, like a river of sewage running directly through my soul, carving the rocks until they're the color of **** and tempering me with the essence of garbage. And what do I do in response? I simply endure. I stand and face the river, thinking myself some hero, some sisyphean idol of martyrdom for claiming to know the agony of living. When in reality, all beings face the same agony, they just do not see it. But I do. I see the devil in all things.
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Oct 29, 2023
Oct 29, 2023 at 5:13 PM UTC
Prose #2
I see the devil in all things. It's not even particularly well-hidden, not like some trick of the imagination or a disguised magician, it's hiding in plain sight to me. Not the sort of devil that a cult may tell you of, not some huge, red demon with the beard of a goat, but something more primal. Fear. Loathing. Hatred. Something malicious, something insidious, something downright disgusting is hiding amongst all which touches the light I walk upon. An idea of evil, a form of maleficence, an essence of carnage, a torment of the psyche. I walk unlit roads towards a house which does not feel like a home. I see it within the groups of youngins that shout, scream and stare me down like a starving, broken hound. I see it in the lonely old man with the fishing hat and the widest, deepest wrinkles one could ever see. He approaches and I feel the cold, biting sting, then the twist, and the switchblade enters my belly. Something is ruptured, I am sure, and I will bleed to death right here, under the inviting smile of an evil moon, on this playground I've trod upon so many times. But no, no, the warm gushing of blood simply does not come as he passes me, the cold is all-encompassing and stark and I realize the blade never came out, it was merely his stare, his essence that penetrated my stomach so violently. I see it in the mother and father that walk near me. I know all they could think about was tearing me apart, bit by bit, inch by inch, biting into my flesh and carving me up like a pig, putting me down with a pickaxe to the forehead like a workhorse. All that was keeping them back was the child on the father's shoulders, so young, so clean, so pure, untainted by such evil. But it'll grow. It will become an adult someday. And woe is me if I see them then. But I do have good news, I do! There is not much left of this path, so short, so narrow, so hard upon the soles of my boots. Soon I can walk inside and experience once again how ghastly, isolated, frozen, lifeless. Truly despicable is this room. There is no home within this house. The devil is in all things, but some things different than others. The walls used to laugh at me but now they stare in silence. They know better than to scare me now. They instill these images of specters coming to **** me in my sleep, but without a word. They do not speak to me, for they know what will happen if I am simply left to my own devices long enough. Clever is this old devil, it is, for it knows its greatest weapon in this war against me is itself the subject. It knows, it does, that one day, one miserable, gray day, under the clouds that block out even that disgusting moon that carries me, that smiles with me, that accompanies me better than any man ever did, I will do its bidding for it. I will simply have had enough and I will leave, and it will greet me with a grin that could harm a man in its sly and smug luminosity. But that day has not come, that day is not today, and the future is as grim and unseemly as the past, almost like they bleed into each other, like a river of sewage running directly through my soul, carving the rocks until they're the color of **** and tempering me with the essence of garbage. And what do I do in response? I simply endure. I stand and face the river, thinking myself some hero, some sisyphean idol of martyrdom for claiming to know the agony of living. When in reality, all beings face the same agony, they just do not see it. But I do. I see the devil in all things.
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I see and hear it all this dreary night. Sirens of many varieties under a sickly pale green moonlight. Police, ambulances, firefighters, hell, maybe even the army is involved. And all for such a little, insignificant, measly thing with no ramifications at all. Looking at the moon unbound by a window is far brighter but I float back inwards to see the gorgeous, yellow, orange and red flames licking my former room and what remains of my belongings. There is nothing left of me, but it was over quite quickly, so there is no need to complain. Some little ghoulish figure set a fire under my bed claiming it would finally warm me, then blamed it on me when the flames consumed both it and I. Nothing is better now than it was before, yesterday and the day that preceded or the day that came even before then, although the lord knows I can't even remember that far back. Nothing is better, as I was saying, because there is nothing to do, and nowhere to be, no one to see and nothing to look forward to. The heavens wouldn't take me, but hell rejected me too. It was a few minutes ago that I learned that those wise crazies from centuries ago, who had called the soul undying, were right, but anamnesis simply wouldn't come and I was not worthy of apotheosis. So even what little I could hold in my hands, the sparks of warmth that I was given oh so rarely, had moistened and turned to drops of water, and I could not even join the fire and the cosmic jubilee. I looked upon my scorched abode once again and sighed. Or would have, had I lungs still, but it seems incorporeal beings have their limitations. No matter, limitations and disappointment were nothing new to me. I floated onward to lament and hope for another day where maybe, just maybe, some body would need a wandering, lonesome soul. Eventually, after hours became days and those days became weeks and those weeks became months and those months became years and those years became worthless to keep counting out to myself, floating turned into such a **** chore. Sitting was impossible, so that was out of the question, as well. And it simply wouldn't come. I eventually forgot what it even was that I was waiting for, and with nobody around, nothing would even remind me. Alas, existence can be tedious, but non-existence is just such a bore.
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Oct 29, 2023
Oct 29, 2023 at 5:13 PM UTC
Prose #1
I see and hear it all this dreary night. Sirens of many varieties under a sickly pale green moonlight. Police, ambulances, firefighters, hell, maybe even the army is involved. And all for such a little, insignificant, measly thing with no ramifications at all. Looking at the moon unbound by a window is far brighter but I float back inwards to see the gorgeous, yellow, orange and red flames licking my former room and what remains of my belongings. There is nothing left of me, but it was over quite quickly, so there is no need to complain. Some little ghoulish figure set a fire under my bed claiming it would finally warm me, then blamed it on me when the flames consumed both it and I. Nothing is better now than it was before, yesterday and the day that preceded or the day that came even before then, although the lord knows I can't even remember that far back. Nothing is better, as I was saying, because there is nothing to do, and nowhere to be, no one to see and nothing to look forward to. The heavens wouldn't take me, but hell rejected me too. It was a few minutes ago that I learned that those wise crazies from centuries ago, who had called the soul undying, were right, but anamnesis simply wouldn't come and I was not worthy of apotheosis. So even what little I could hold in my hands, the sparks of warmth that I was given oh so rarely, had moistened and turned to drops of water, and I could not even join the fire and the cosmic jubilee. I looked upon my scorched abode once again and sighed. Or would have, had I lungs still, but it seems incorporeal beings have their limitations. No matter, limitations and disappointment were nothing new to me. I floated onward to lament and hope for another day where maybe, just maybe, some body would need a wandering, lonesome soul. Eventually, after hours became days and those days became weeks and those weeks became months and those months became years and those years became worthless to keep counting out to myself, floating turned into such a **** chore. Sitting was impossible, so that was out of the question, as well. And it simply wouldn't come. I eventually forgot what it even was that I was waiting for, and with nobody around, nothing would even remind me. Alas, existence can be tedious, but non-existence is just such a bore.
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The sound of blood dripping Faint and repetitive thumps Rouses me from my daze And I look down upon the scene What remains of a face is there One even a mother couldn't identify And my hands covered in fresh viscera So I start to piece it together Upon recollection I realize The punishment you received Inflicted by my heavy hands Was nowhere near severe enough I took from you the clarity of vision But I must continue onward Knowing what you took, I'll never regain Always cursed to be less than before Wherever you end up now I hope your torment never eases And you find no grace or mercy No forgiveness for sins unrepentant I will never be whole And never be loved As long as it's not undone I will always be nothing
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Aug 18, 2023
Aug 18, 2023 at 10:59 AM UTC
...and the world goes blind
Be ye, who are not forgiven Like the wind Fleet of foot and silent Fly then, mine sorrows Away with ye And til we meet again Cry not for fear, nor grief Ye shan't suffer Among rats or roaches Skittering, clawing beastes Be with me In mine hours of solitude Sing not for love or loss Rest thy voice And thine weary head in a lap All that must be will be And has been So sleep eternal in cold heat
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Aug 6, 2023
Aug 6, 2023 at 3:11 PM UTC
Coldlight Apostles
Welcome to the festival Where chaos true shall reign Many saints have blessed it all I'm heralding the pain I seek and I beseech My trembling hands do reach Your approval I seek With eyes bereft and meek O Gracious Lord of all Through winding dreams I fall Is there no resting place Have I lost all my grace Weak and haphazard I sing And dance around a yellow king Transfixed upon a dimming moon Whose gaze returned upon me soon What more is there to say than this To be without, empty of bliss I crave the warmth of soft embrace In you I've found my long lost grace
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Jul 26, 2023
Jul 26, 2023 at 10:07 PM UTC
Moonchild
There's a girl down in the valley And she dreams of being warm But it's a winter's day in June The feathers torn from her longcoat And she sleeps in her mother's bed She doesn't speak in her own tongue Some days she just speaks none at all And she just sees herself a ghost There's a girl down in the valley Who doesn't dream much anymore And when she does it is of torment Which always comes true after all She used to dream of being tall To be a giant in the moonbeams But she's a wretched little thing And she gets smaller every day And when the voices all stop singing That's when she meets her own small tune It's out of key and full of misery And there's no one left to hear it
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Jul 21, 2023
Jul 21, 2023 at 8:24 PM UTC
Solemnity
As a child, they teach you what is And inquisitively you find it isn't What is and is not, and where do I come in? I, who think and feel, but not my own She, who walks, is not I As I, who think, am not her Still yet, we are joined at the hip, we are twins The big sisterly ghost and the little sisterly robot If I am who I am but not who she is And she represents me Then only tangentially do I see these creatures The pigeons, lizards and moles As well as horses, cats and dogs And still yet, those too are me and not I All are shards of the greatest Broken Mirror Or fragments of a fading memory in Him As the famous term insists, a writhing mass Though writhing is incorrect, it is unmoving Stable, expanding, becoming-living and unvoid Moving all which moves and breathing all which breathes It is in him that we are finite, but becoming-infinite Approaching eternity while rotting away meaning Mirror images of mimicry and specters of words Colliding in the Great that is Unknown but Knowing So finally, all I see is that which is synthesized A world created just for me, a tale untold They, the Otherness spouts drivel and slander About my sight being the flaw in my Machinery I am she, and the fauna which you see I am she, and the great Anomaly To paraphrase He, who is Perfect and Unmoving I am that I am, I will be what I will be
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Apr 28, 2023
Apr 28, 2023 at 5:50 AM UTC
Being-Unto-Faunomalia
I see the sun, no sky Through a world of closed eyes All day awake and alert Though I wish that I weren't All that which is real Does nothing but disgust That which is perceived Pounds the mind to dust I am not who I am A spirit trapped in chains Organs are my dam I'm enslaved and maimed Is this all there is? Will there be no more? I might take the risk And give in to the gore
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Apr 4, 2023
Apr 4, 2023 at 10:20 AM UTC
Shaving Mirror