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Jan 2014
Casual catastrophe
The hollow yearn of death’s widow
Bites the pavement on a thunderous night
For crippled rattles to ignite

The insidious ruin
Rides a blanket corpse into the liquor store hold up
Feigns apparitions for the madness
Distilling cruelty as a hand’s reach for addicts

A sleeper savant
Stretches his face across barren lust
A killing grin between rotting tusks
That rent the light out of a *****’s still blood

Devouring maggots
Of the ignorant, the arrogant, the cruel
Kiss the blisters on the swollen hearts
Of starving nations left to tear themselves apart
6:34am, January 9th 2014

Wow, I haven't written social commentary in awhile. I was inspired by this brilliantly dark track, which incited some deep revulsion in me: http://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/track/burial

We are intelligent enough to find many reasons to ****, directly and indirectly. Loss of empathy, desperation, to feel in control. Humans are terrifying creatures.
Akemi
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