The World world like
to plug our ears with
metallic tasting
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lest we hear
the gentle pure song
of a kind bird
that awakens
the soul
to all that is ill.

The World would like
for all things
true and whole and beautiful
to be swept up
in a hurricane
which once hits
leaves you scrambling
with meaningless green

The World would like
If you sat obediently
staring through
the lens of
an endlessly broken world
only to be remedied
by the Superior Species
not the wise, elderly tree
divinely colored leaf
lonesome worm
nor the sacred drops of rain
worthy.

The World would like infinite requests
a machine that
tirelessly
fills
fills
fills
only to simultaneously deplete itself
however cruel and unusual
seems correct
because how could

The World

be wrong?