Spinning mad futile psychoses delusional disorder persecutory follow me follow me follow me
Crucify crucify crucify
The lions are at the gates
The LIONS are at the GATES
Please — please, PANIC
They asked for volunteers and you swore
You SWORE
And here you are exposing the secret belying the deepest chasms of affinity for nothing be nothing be nothing be nothing
Thirty pieces of silver is too much
The LIONS are AT the GATES
You SWORE
They told you it would ****
They told you what it felt like to be dissected on a molecular level — to plummet headlong through a blackhole out from the context of what has been and into the being of all that will ever
YOU SWORE
And here we are — here I am alone
And the LIONS are AT THE GATES
And we’ve lost another solider to cafeteria food and freshly waxed vinyl flooring and the smell of unscented soap and non-alcoholic hand sanitizers and the taste of Bob Barker toothpaste that fills your mouth as you scrape your maw with ironlike hard plastic bristles and the sound of a door propping open as you shower to make sure you’re not hanging from the curtain and the taste you get on the back of your tongue when you feel the air that is so stale from locked windows and doors it makes you feel nauseous thinking about it and the girl in the corner of the room who colors and you know that she swore too you know that she swore too you know that she swore too because you were there
And I am left
HERE ALONE EVENTHOUGHYOUSWORE EVENTHOUGHTHEYTOLDYOUITWOULDSUCK EVENTHOUGH THE LIONS ARE AT THE GATE
I should have known. They told me it would **** when they asked for volunteers.