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I speak to you, You human-husk. You sycophantic whelp. Finding meaning as anonymous-agent— Iniquitous in action And sleeve-worn faction; dutiful **** you are. Small, masked, sanctioned— playing fool for force. You sow the hate And reap the hearse. A neighbor murdered in close-knit streets. ******* ***** your words— But just before the time to breathe, digest the inhumane— Another’s cuffed, then killed. Shot just down the block, A picture, poisoned Within a single frame. How bereft of good must one become, by choice, to voice the evil that you shill? Wicked, wan, wasted: a cannibal ant against the hill. Scurry across a corpse-strewn canvas, as you must eat your fill. A self-sufficient farm: harvesting social ills, threshing pain, ‘Community’: beneath the mill. You hide your timid face, shed your sinful name. Not man enough to own your deeds, so in victims you place blame. But if, for once, you summon the gall enough, at least, to meet my eyes— An icy chill will fill the room from disgust beyond disguise. The message: clear. Unblinking, calm: Incise. It is you, Coward, that I despise. (I own my words. You duck behind bullet-backed lies). Indentured body to the badge, finger puppet to the trigger of tyrant’s gun; you fire— yet of consequence, you fear none. Your mouth spins the script, a woven verbiage of lies— inducing confidence in craven. A recitation, loud and cowed chants, “Credence to contempt!”— An incantation, mean and wile, sung with every rising sun, Not reveille this, but morning’s calling to the vile. A day, a month, a life— it matters not, as certain comes, In time—the Reaper cloaked with scythe. And, at the final judgement, in face of last assize, you’ll find the verdict rendered— the sentence set— a case already tried, all pleas to be denied; As it was, through Earthly-oath, your conscious actions through which you’ve long since died. Whatever waits beyond this life will not reward, will not redeem, restore. Instead it will consume you whole, put you back to work, wherefore— You’ll serve (again) as cutthroat cog or despot’s ***** Spent, used-up, disposed.
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Feb 17
Feb 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM UTC
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I speak to you, You human-husk. You sycophantic whelp. Finding meaning as anonymous-agent— Iniquitous in action And sleeve-worn faction; dutiful **** you are. Small, masked, sanctioned— playing fool for force. You sow the hate And reap the hearse. A neighbor murdered in close-knit streets. ******* ***** your words— But just before the time to breathe, digest the inhumane— Another’s cuffed, then killed. Shot just down the block, A picture, poisoned Within a single frame. How bereft of good must one become, by choice, to voice the evil that you shill? Wicked, wan, wasted: a cannibal ant against the hill. Scurry across a corpse-strewn canvas, as you must eat your fill. A self-sufficient farm: harvesting social ills, threshing pain, ‘Community’: beneath the mill. You hide your timid face, shed your sinful name. Not man enough to own your deeds, so in victims you place blame. But if, for once, you summon the gall enough, at least, to meet my eyes— An icy chill will fill the room from disgust beyond disguise. The message: clear. Unblinking, calm: Incise. It is you, Coward, that I despise. (I own my words. You duck behind bullet-backed lies). Indentured body to the badge, finger puppet to the trigger of tyrant’s gun; you fire— yet of consequence, you fear none. Your mouth spins the script, a woven verbiage of lies— inducing confidence in craven. A recitation, loud and cowed chants, “Credence to contempt!”— An incantation, mean and wile, sung with every rising sun, Not reveille this, but morning’s calling to the vile. A day, a month, a life— it matters not, as certain comes, In time—the Reaper cloaked with scythe. And, at the final judgement, in face of last assize, you’ll find the verdict rendered— the sentence set— a case already tried, all pleas to be denied; As it was, through Earthly-oath, your conscious actions through which you’ve long since died. Whatever waits beyond this life will not reward, will not redeem, restore. Instead it will consume you whole, put you back to work, wherefore— You’ll serve (again) as cutthroat cog or despot’s ***** Spent, used-up, disposed.
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Feb 17
Feb 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM UTC
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