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The Gifts That Keep On Sucking

Remember, some line up. Line up and wait for their own day in hell. They scream for victory. The far away deep, lost heart places that   dry up fast when cowards are left to tend them. Accelerating, gnarled prizes, metal and tubes, wires and guts and brains that smoke the sun's color, losing it in the pitch of the rainbow-slicked sludge. Up, up, and away, a dark celebration in song, something shouted gleefully at the sky on the way to the gallows. Desire, hate, and the teasing, fatted, greasy greed, they all feed the Black God's Mirth, they'd better. They'd better know he'll consume them as quick, when the hard, cold mud-water fist envelops them embraces them, makes them still again. Don't waste your deep song throats on a trivial Godsson, humanity-theif or cracked up narc, discarding dignity as quickly as you give it up. Don't do it. Give him breathmints and soap and humility, please. He needs those.   Don't take anything that isn't yours or can't be sold quickly, easily locally. The bedroom path is strewn with flowers no one loves You are worth a little revenge now and then, get some. Talk??? It's cheap shit. No one's buying.
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Written by
auntiebelle
Published
Dec 14, 2014
Lines·Words
29·200
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Roughly composed in the parking lot of the Port Orchard Shari's, in the wee hours before dawn on Sunday, March 2nd, 2014, not because the idea is great or good or even anything at all, but because it was very necessary that I do something quiet, non-violent and not considered a felony in Washington State. I won (sort of, I didn't talk to any cops or wind up in jail that night) that struggle and the result is this piece of crap. Suggestions welcome. Seriously.

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