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#maggots
Something is living under my skin again Something learning my shape from the inside Fat little prophets Blind little kings Gnawing tunnels through the sweet meat until the cores collapsed like wet lungs. Under floorboards. Inside school walls. In the hot copper stink of train stations at night There’s a taste in everything now Metallic kindness Sweet rot in the mouth They breed flies in television static Raise maggots in radio towers Push their fingers through the soft skull of a starving town and call it guidance There’s a quiet industry inside the skull Tiny mouths working overtime Turning memory into compost Turning anger into compliance Another worm. Another sermon. Another mouth to crawl inside them.
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May 18
May 18, 2026 at 1:59 PM UTC
Radio Towers Full of Maggots
Maggots crawl and squirm Their grubby teeth firm On the things I loved very young Bright colors hopeful days Are now covered in the dung of those filthy maggots in their craze The maggots eat away at my youth I sit as they bite and gnaw At the things I found peace in like a stuffed bears paw As I cry out for help my parents drown themselves in gin They start to infest They start to hive They lay their eggs as if they are the best In my youth the maggots thrive The maggots eat away at my youth I used to skip and enjoy fun days in the sun But now I sit alone in my room waiting for the day to be done People speak of happy memories when they were youthful But I had to get by in my youth with being untruthful But it's become too late now The maggots have invaded every part leaving me to let out a pitiful vow The maggots eat away at my youth
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May 11
May 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM UTC
Maggots Cover My Youth
you’ll meet me where the forest kisses brine, you’ll find me deep in earth, where roots entwine circled by pines, a quiet, endless, sacred kind of time. you’ll take my hand while maggots feast, you won’t look away you won’t retreat parts of me that once were only you are torn apart, yet somehow still ring true. and now, I give a future to larvae deep into what we will be they touch the thing you held so close above the fading warmth, the echo of our love. and as they feed, they carry what we were, a memory they’ll keep, though they don’t know it, they’ll cling to it as if it were their own true fate, a truth they hold, though they can’t recreate. and finally, after decades, we meet again. our memory will dwindle with time and our hearts will rot but in the dark beneath earth and rain they keep what’s left of us alive again.
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Apr 4
Apr 4, 2026 at 9:32 AM UTC
MAGGOTS (remake)
Why do you people sing such melodies, Such that we feel every reason to live, And make us fear to be in dead graves, Where dumb maggots rock sonic tunes?
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Feb 10
Feb 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM UTC
Music
The torch shining in the cesspit, on the masses -- of rising maggots.
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Sep 10, 2023
Sep 10, 2023 at 2:36 AM UTC
[ The torch shining in ]
Billowed down onto natures bust a face full of dirt a mouth full of maggots corpsing coercion onto frantic plates slopping up the juicy details derailing off the tracks into a new train of nature, saving only what comes of value yet, you don't save yourselves. Lucrative hands slithering softly by ready to steal your life with just a touch how much are you worth? Unfortunately, nothing.
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Aug 22, 2019
Aug 22, 2019 at 5:16 PM UTC
Soft
Breath was exhumed from the corpses lingering impressions.    But all were merged beyond                            the futile emotions of the flesh. For where reflections were void,              only true deliberations stigmatized.                                     Everything of before,                that  were psychedelic illusions. Reminiscing of stained windows,                 recently cleansed of the memories of                                                                 yesterday. Only now were remnant fallen dreams buried                    beneath falling stars..                            That crawled like maggots                                                  in the heavens burrowing deeper the more they fell...                 And still though falling, there breath still                                           gasped as death only exhales.
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Feb 17, 2019
Feb 17, 2019 at 4:50 PM UTC
Death Only Exhales...
I am the King of Maggots. Discarded remains are my domain. I open my mouth to lead my Children, and Flies erupt from my lungs. There is nothing for me in this world. Nothing but contempt. Let it come, let it dribble down the chin of disdain as it swallows. My Spawn hatch beneath my skin, squirming, thriving on my lifeblood. At last, it is time to leave the nest, and Maggots burrow out through my pores. Outside, I am empty. Inside, I am fulfilled.
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Dec 1, 2017
Dec 1, 2017 at 9:11 AM UTC
King of Maggots
Even in death,           your last words were cremated within you. Like a whispers                     in a jar rotting in your lungs. Words were maggots              eating away within                          yearning for release.
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Jun 7, 2017
Jun 7, 2017 at 4:55 PM UTC
Last Words Entombed
The limbs grow, cover and cradle me Like the arms of a forgotten lover The maggots give me love bits as they slowly consume The worms slither round about, in and out Never again will my face wear a frown Never again will I worry about zen Or about how's and when's This moss is my bed Where I lay my weary head Off to rest for eternity Where the animal and insects show me love internally Finally LOVE!!!!!!
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Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 12:14 PM UTC
Finally Found Love
I'm forever circling over the tree tops I don't have to flap my wings, I just glide non stop Just trying to find some place to land For your clock was stoped, you've ran out of sand Don't worry no pain I bring You won't feel a thing I will feast upon your rotting flesh It is my very favorite dish I will gobble it all down even the wiggling maggots And whatever else there inhabits I do my circling dance in the sky Just to let others know that near by Something must have died, and lays baking in the sun And I will soon be having fun
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Mar 21, 2016
Mar 21, 2016 at 5:17 PM UTC
The Vultures Song
The limbs grow, cover and cradle me Like the arms of a forgotten lover The maggots give me love bits as they slowly consume The worms slither round about, in and out Never again will my face wear a frown Never again will I worry about zen Or about how's and when's This moss is my bed Where I lay my weary head Off to rest for eternity Where the animal and insects show me love Finally LOVE
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Mar 12, 2016
Mar 12, 2016 at 9:35 PM UTC
Finally Found Love
Her friends in the dark, always playing games, The headless One in places never expected always A mouthful of jelly maggots, he likes the games. "I eat one every now and again, The eyeless one never watching where he goes always Jumping out ***** nails so I gave then a coat of baby Pink much prettier, now his teeth all un-neat. "Sharp and graceful what do you think, They like the place of perpetual darkness, they said I Can visit it soon, I packed my Dora bag. they said its A one way trip, one more game of hide and seek. "A slimy goes down before my eternal sleep Mmm...,
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Aug 1, 2015
Aug 1, 2015 at 7:18 AM UTC
My Friends In The Darkest Places
Rain makes the mighty fir stronger As she creates a home for unsubstantial creatures Glimpses of birds mean little in the long life she is to endure, Hundreds of years with thankless children add up to nothing. And still years alone wear down the mightiest of giants, Nature brings great storms to test her will. A groan, a thud, and silence Roots splayed above a grave. Even after the rain stops holding her up, She has not escaped her job of nourishment. Her ribs cave in, Maggots selfishly taking their fill As their fat bodies writhe in the flesh of god.
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 9:25 PM UTC
Another Creator
microphone snakes, gas mask, covered eyes, barbwire nation, sounds of pavement inside, graffiti alleyways, women laying down in fields of poppies Turn the camera on me. Look what you see maggots crawling around like a ******* disease turn your head now, roll your ******* eyes like an apple core eaten up used and tossed aside forbidden fruit of ones mind defiled demeaned and rotten inside searching, N searching, for something to find discover mind in the gutter, under covers it hides forbidden fruit and forgotten lies so much time to expand our minds Turn the camera on me. and Look what you see maggots crawling around just like a ******* disease turn your head now, roll your ******* eyes like an apple core eaten up and tossed aside lost memories and forgotten dreams succumbing to fit of weakness no one knows what it means but we say the truth is what were speaking Turn the camera on me. Look what you see maggots crawling around like a ******* disease turn your head now, roll your ******* eyes like an apple core eaten up and tossed aside Tell me what you see!!. Turn your hate on the Little pig get down On your filthy knees turn your head now, close your weary eyes The Caterpillar becomes the butterfly used abuse refussing to die
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 2:17 AM UTC
DEC12TH
I'll keep it to myself. Let it tear me apart, From the inside out. You know, some people never change. Sometimes, its better off that way. And as the maggots come to be, They rest in the best parts of me. So go ahead, Shut lock that door, Those places aren't special no more. Soon enough there won't be a single piece, Left of who I use to be, But maybe its better off this way, Maybe ill start over someday. Oh no, im not scared to die, I just dont think I can look, Into your pale blue eyes. It might be a silly fear, But a promise is a promise my dear. So ill keep it to myself. There's no point in letting it out. Its fading and decaying anyway, I already can't recall yesterday. Dont want you to see what I have become, I wash my guilt away with long walks and *** Oh no, it dont help that much. But nothing does after you've lost touch. So I'll keep it to myself.
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Dec 20, 2014
Dec 20, 2014 at 5:34 PM UTC
Im a magnet for your maggots
The dead see darkness only "Darkness" Decomposing teeth taste stale air Acrid, Rotten, Pungent Odours of parts decayed The dead never die They are inanimate, like a ornament Still, Frozen, Angelic Peace forever frozen on their face They sleep on a bed of maggots Digesting them over time, The screams never heard But they reverberate through Oak, Earth, Grass Above saturated with their terror Slowly dies, The eyes closed shut, Darkness is the keep sake, That hides the horror in there still formed eyes, but everything decays over time Flesh, Muscle, Brain Turns to dust, that which was there, Still lives on in a vacant skull The horror lives on energy Of life, trapped in A void, A prison, With no bars, never to be free The dead don't die, the torture in death lives on inside..
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Nov 9, 2014
Nov 9, 2014 at 4:12 PM UTC
The Dead Don't Die
****** affliction of a lack of affection companion Hand and hand strolling greater than syrupy plunging and even sometimes buddy shrugging over wooden noisemakers We whistle with their metal strings and through the pasta soft ones in our throats but no nest colored mares seem to hear our flamboyant feather calls for future fondling So I scribe slight implied short letters invites to drink joints and nature jaunts All too well thought out hoping your advanced technology cannot trace the time I spent to type The overanalysis of our psych: her and I’s wondering why she doesn’t have an inkling for a cute fall date where we attempt to bake apple pies It’s all too contrived, I know I’ll strive for delusion Accept a useful interpretation for our chemical inflammation and let sparks pass it by Like itsy bitsy flies laying eggs in a wound for stagnant water maggots They’ll eat away the thought well where all my cranial zaps seem to dwell.
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Dec 14, 2013
Dec 14, 2013 at 11:00 PM UTC
Peacock