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There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself—
Finite infinity.
The Sphynx is drowsy,
Her wings are furled,
Her ear is heavy,
She broods on the world.?
"Who'll tell me my secret
The ages have kept?
? I awaited the seer,
While they slumbered and slept;?

The fate of the manchild,
The meaning of man;
Known fruit of the unknown,
Dædalian plan;
Out of sleeping a waking,
Out of waking a sleep,
Life death overtaking,
Deep underneath deep.

***** as a sunbeam
Upspringeth the palm;
The elephant browses
Undaunted and calm;
In beautiful motion
The thrush plies his wings;
Kind leaves of his covert!
Your silence he sings.

The waves unashamed
In difference sweet,
Play glad with the breezes,
Old playfellows meet.
The journeying atoms,
Primordial wholes,
Firmly draw, firmly drive,
By their animate poles.

Sea, earth, air, sound, silence,
Plant, quadruped, bird,
By one music enchanted,
One deity stirred,
Each the other adorning,
Accompany still;
Night veileth the morning,
The vapor the hill.

The babe by its mother
Lies bathed in joy,
Glide its hours uncounted,
The sun is its toy;
Shines the peace of all being
Without cloud in its eyes,
And the sum of the world
In soft miniature lies.

But man crouches and blushes,
Absconds and conceals,
He creepeth and peepeth,
He palters and steals;
Infirm, melancholy,
Jealous glancing around,
An oaf, an accomplice,
He poisons the ground.

Out spoke the great mother
Beholding his fear,
At the sound of her accents
Cold shuddered the sphere;?
Who has drugged my boy's cup,
Who has mixed my boy's bread?
Who with sadness and madness
Has turned the manchild's head?"?

I heard a poet answer
Aloud and cheerfully,
"Say on, sweet Sphynx! thy dirges
Are pleasant songs to me.
Deep love lieth under
These pictures of time,
They fade in the light of
Their meaning sublime.

The fiend that man harries,
Is love of the Best;
Yawns the Pit of the Dragon
Lit by rays from the Blest.
The Lethe of Nature
Can't trance him again,
Whose soul sees the Perfect,
Which his eyes seek in vain.

Profounder, profounder,
Man's spirit must dive;
To his aye-rolling orbit
No goal will arrive.
The heavens that draw him
With sweetness untold,
Once found, ?for new heavens
He spurneth the old.

Pride ruined the angels,
Their shame them restores,
And the joy that is sweetest
Lurks in stings of remorse.
Have I a lover
Who is noble and free,?
I would he were nobler
Than to love me.

Eterne alternation
Now follows, now flies,
And under pain, pleasure,
Under pleasure, pain lies.
Love works at the centre,
Heart-heaving alway;
Forth speed the strong pulses
To the borders of day.

Dull Sphynx, Jove keep thy five wits!
Thy sight is growing blear,
Rue, myrrh, and ****** for the Sphynx,
Her muddy eyes to clear."
The old Sphynx bit her thick lip,?
"Who taught thee me to name?
I am thy spirit, yoke-fellow!
Of thine eye I am eyebeam.

Thou art the unanswered question;
Couldst see thy proper eye,
Alway it asketh, asketh,
And each answer is a lie.
So take thy quest through nature,
It through thousand natures ply,
Ask on, thou clothed eternity,?
Time is the false reply."

Uprose the merry Sphynx,
And crouched no more in stone,
She melted into purple cloud,
She silvered in the moon,
She spired into a yellow flame,
She flowered in blossoms red,
She flowed into a foaming wave,
She stood Monadnoc's head.

Thorough a thousand voices
Spoke the universal dame,
"Who telleth one of my meanings,
Is master of all I am."
All summer we moved in a villa brimful of echos,
Cool as the pearled interior of a conch.
Bells, hooves, of the high-stipping black goats woke us.
Around our bed the baronial furniture
Foundered through levels of light seagreen and strange.
Not one leaf wrinkled in the clearing air.
We dreamed how we were perfect, and we were.

Against bare, whitewashed walls, the furniture
Anchored itself, griffin-legged and darkly grained.
Two of us in a place meant for ten more-
Our footsteps multiplied in the shadowy chambers,
Our voices fathomed a profounder sound:
The walnut banquet table, the twelve chairs
Mirrored the intricate gestures of two others.

Heavy as a statuary, shapes not ours
Performed a dumbshow in the polished wood,
That cabinet without windows or doors:
He lifts an arm to bring her close, but she
Shies from his touch: his is an iron mood.
Seeing her freeze, he turns his face away.
They poise and grieve as in some old tragedy.

Moon-blanched and implacable, he and she
Would not be eased, released. Our each example
Of temderness dove through their purgatory
Like a planet, a stone, swallowed in a great darkness,
Leaving no sparky track, setting up no ripple.
Nightly we left them in their desert place.
Lights out, they dogged us, sleepless and envious:

We dreamed their arguments, their stricken voices.
We might embrace, but those two never did,
Come, so unlike us, to a stiff impasse,
Burdened in such a way we seemed the lighter-
Ourselves the haunters, and they, flesh and blood;
As if, above love's ruinage, we were
The heaven those two dreamed of, in despair.
The Sphinx is drowsy,
Her wings are furled:
Her ear is heavy,
She broods on the world.
"Who'll tell me my secret,
The ages have kept?_
I awaited the seer
While they slumbered and slept:
_
"The fate of the man-child,
The meaning of man;
Known fruit of the unknown;
Daedalian plan;
Out of sleeping a waking,
Out of waking a sleep;
Life death overtaking;
Deep underneath deep?

:***** as a sunbeam,
Upspringeth the palm;
The elephant browses,
Undaunted and calm;
In beautiful motion
The thrush plies his wings;
Kind leaves of his covert,
Your silence he sings.

"The waves, unashaméd,
In difference sweet,
Play glad with the breezes,
Old playfellows meet;
The journeying atoms,  
Primordial wholes,
Firmly draw, firmly drive,
By their animate poles.

"Sea, earth, air, sound, silence,
Plant, quadruped, bird,
By one music enchanted,
One deity stirred,--
Each the other adorning,
Accompany still;
Night veileth the morning,
The vapor the hill.

"The babe by its mother
Lies bathéd in joy;
Glide its hours uncounted,--
The sun is its toy;
Shines the peace of all being,
Without cloud, in its eyes;
And the sum of the world
In soft miniature lies.

"But man crouches and blushes,
Absconds and conceals;
He creepeth and peepeth,
He palters and steals;
Infirm, melancholy,
Jealous glancing around,
An oaf, an accomplice,
He poisons the ground.

"Out spoke the great mother,
Beholding his fear;--
At the sound of her accents
Cold shuddered the sphere:--
'Who has drugged my boy's cup?
Who has mixed my boy's bread?
Who, with sadness and madness,
Has turned my child's head?

I heard a poet answer
Aloud and cheerfully,
"Say on, sweet Sphinx! thy dirges
Are pleasant songs to me.
Deep love lieth under
These pictures of time;
They fade in the light of
Their meaning sublime.

"The fiend that man harries
Is love of the Best;
Yawns the pit of the Dragon,
Lit by rays from the Blest.
The lethe of Nature
Can't trance him again,
Whose soul sees the perfect,
Which his eyes seek in vain.

"To vision profounder,
Man's spirit must dive;
His aye-rolling orb
At no goal will arrive;
The heavens that now draw him
With sweetness untold,
Once found,--for new heavens
He spurneth the old.

"Pride ruined the angels,
Their shame them restores;
Lurks the joy that is sweetest
In stings of remorse.
Have I a lover  
Who is noble and free?--
I would he were nobler
Than to love me.

"Eterne alternation
Now follows, now flies;
And under pain, pleasure,--
Under pleasure, pain lies.
Love works at the center,
Heart-heaving alway;
Forth speed the strong pulses
To the borders of day.

"Dull Sphinx, Jove keep thy five wits'
Thy sight is growing blear;
Rue, myrrh and ****** for the Sphinx,
Her muddy eyes to clear!"
The old Sphinx bit her thick lip,--
Said, "Who taught thee me to name?
I am thy spirit, yoke-fellow;
Of thine eye I am eyebeam.

"Thou art the unanswered question;
Couldst see thy proper eye,
Alway it asketh, asketh;
And each answer is a lie.
So take thy question through nature,
It through thousand natures ply;
Ask on, thou clothed eternity;
Time is the false reply.

Uprose the merry Sphinx,
And crouched no more in stone;
She melted into purple cloud,
She silvered in the moon;
She spired into a yellow flame;
She flowered in blossoms red;
She flowed into a foaming wave:
She stood Monadnoc's head.

Through a thousand voices
Spoke the universal dame
"Who telleth one of my meanings
Is master of all I am."
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way
That looms before me, as the thundering night
Falls on the ocean: I must stop, and pray
One little prayer, and then - what bitter fight
Flames at the end beyond the darkling goal?
These are my passions that my feet must read;
This is my sword, the fervour of my soul;
This is my Will, the crown upon my head.
For see! the darkness beckons: I have gone,
Before this terrible hour, towards the gloom,
Braved the wild dragon, called the tiger on
With whirling cries of pride, sought out the tomb
Where lurking vampires battened, and my steel
Has wrought its splendour through the gates of death
My courage did not falter: now I feel
My heart beat wave-wise, and my throat catch breath
As if I choked; some horror creeps between
The spirit of my will and its desire,
Some just reluctance to the Great Unseen
That coils its nameless terrors, and its dire
Fear round my heart; a devil cold as ice
Breathes somewhere, for I feel his shudder take
My veins: some deadlier asp or cockatrice
Slimes in my senses: I am half awake,
Half automatic, as I move along
Wrapped in a cloud of blackness deep as hell,
Hearing afar some half-forgotten song
As of disruption; yet strange glories dwell
Above my head, as if a sword of light,
Rayed of the very Dawn, would strike within
The limitations of this deadly night
That folds me for the sign of death and sin -
O Light! descend! My feet move vaguely on
In this amazing darkness, in the gloom
That I can touch with trembling sense. There shone
Once, in my misty memory, in the womb
Of some unformulated thought, the flame
And smoke of mighty pillars; yet my mind
Is clouded with the horror of this same
Path of the wise men: for my soul is blind
Yet: and the foemen I have never feared
I could not see (if such should cross the way),
And therefore I am strange: my soul is seared
With desolation of the blinding day
I have come out from: yes, that fearful light
Was not the Sun: my life has been the death,
This death may be the life: my spirit sight
Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath
Is breathing in a nobler air; I know,
I know it in my soul, despite of this,
The clinging darkness of the Long Ago,
Cruel as death, and closer than a kiss,
This horror of great darkness. I am come
Into this darkness to attain the light:
To gain my voice I make myself as dumb:
That I may see I close my outer sight:
So, I am here. My brows are bent in prayer:
I kneel already in the Gates of Dawn;
And I am come, albeit unaware,
To the deep sanctuary: my hope is drawn
From wells profounder than the very sea.
Yea, I am come, where least I guessed it so,
Into the very Presence of the Three
That Are beyond all Gods. And now I know
What spiritual Light is drawing me
Up to its stooping splendour. In my soul
I feel the Spring, the all-devouring Dawn,
Rush with my Rising. There, beyond the goal,
The Veil is rent!

Yes: let the veil be drawn.
Perfection is a necessary evil
but even with the ****** hand gone
her black veil still rests neatly upon her face
for her eyes remain covered reminiscing
in the darkness of her own secret sin
he sees this flaw, this empty husk of a woman
Death
still freshly pressed against her lips, stealing her last breath
she will never awake
he still sees her secret sin
if either man had achieved a profounder wisdom
they might not have flung away their happiness
for the pursuit of purity or science
yet quietly they craved the things so swiftly tugged away from their grasp
a sin still stains the hidden face of man
an indelible mark upon both the afflicted faces
so aged from bitter greed
wanting
needing
Perfection
Still grasping in the time of defeat
so prominent on the face of the man who shows his veil with cloth
with creepy crepe
“Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity...!”
The man cried
The girl Georgiana whispers of her impending mortality
while Parson Hooper rages into the dying light
with quiet longing the mister wanted to be seen
with the black veil married to his face
he accepted it- why could he, the scientist, not,
he still hides
dying for the sake of perfection
and living for the sake of hiding
Grasping at what could never be done
To rip the veil from upon her face
The ****** hand now gone,
He still craved more,
As their eyes close reminiscing in the darkness of their own secret sin,
The hands of all still,
Grasping at the veil,
To see the shame underneath.
I never took a towel with fear
To dip in bowls of strain,
So why do these afflict me when
I play my song again?

Am I a greater person than
The Servant was who lived?
Are these who sit before me
More in worth than those he loved?

Why is my task so different?
Can my few moments be
Profounder work than all performed
By those who bent a knee?

And is this work so vital
That I can't afford to err?
Did any thought at all like this
One moment strike him there?

I wish it all were different!
I wish I always found
I'd met somebody's certain need
When playing certain sounds.

I wish that when I labored
Someone else's life improved.
Instead I fear each hour played
Is one for self I've lived.

And if not, why not?
Can perfected pitches heal a soul?
And if so, how can I
Bind private efforts to this goal?

Is playing truly service?
Doesn't every nerve reveal
My selfish goals?  If giving's
All I want, what's this I feel?

The world's got scores of other tasks
Without this endless dread,
The ones—quite naturally—
Which leave my brother clothed and fed.

So why go back to start
An inward fight without an end—
And with such meager impact
For the toils that I would spend?

But maybe—here is something—
This dilemma is my cross:
To meet, as yet, an unseen need
By counting all things loss;

To labor all my life to learn
To dip a foolish towel
In basins filled with weakness
While I feel a critic scowl.
Nephilem07 Apr 2023
While on the lonely path
I chanced upon a tree in bloom
cool pink under stellar wrath
its value held in its doom.

I gazed upon its beauty
its worth seemed ever true
so unlike diamonds and their cruelty
its day but number few.

Its folds held fragrant melody
its petals soft as silk
yet many think gold a remedy
scrathed from earth by all manner of ilk.

I plucked a handsome cluster
to prolong my chance encounter.
It set the clock to muster
its price all the more profounder.
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics. But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the ***** Whale's brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.

                        - Moby ****
"Blessings" Missed—Is That Misfortune?

Missed the "blessings"—what a fate?
Luck? Just dust beyond the gate.
For the Soul to serve and strive—
That’s the curse for those who thrive.

World’s a coffin, "gains" are dust,
If the Spirit’s crushed to rust.
Glory, riches, hollow cheer—
"Lofty heights" for slaves to steer.



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Burnt-Out "Machine"

A poet sold to evil’s stream—
No fix will bring back fire or dream.
His words now spin in dull pretense,
A goat’s own verbal impotence.



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To Think You Know It All

To think you know—now that’s the fear,
Worse than the void of what’s unclear.
For in that pride, you always fail—
A legacy of falsehoods’ tale.



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Gilded Cages and the Rest

Life in a thorned and narrow cage,
Or thorns outside—worse, to wage!
Ancestors left this cursed mark,
In slavery's chains, the soul grows dark.
In tangled realms, we stumble, lost—
A legacy of endless cost.



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The Fool's Courage

Does the fool’s boldness
Impress you? No,
Not when there's no reason,
And madness takes the show.

A fool's own motivation,
Take war as a sign:
Without evacuation,
Life’s worth is barely a dime.

Only before death’s door
Will he see the cost,
Not with his mind, but "fur"—
A fool, forever lost.



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The "Miracle" of North Korea

Study it, then start to apply—
Make the people more afraid,
But a "paradise" you can't deny,
Is one that’s never truly made.



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Nonsense Modeling Pseudo-Reality

X and Y, and Z instead—
Form the three-dimensional dread.
Add on time to raise the weight,
To make the burden escalate.

But the Spirit’s depth forgot,
Everywhere, the fleeting thought—
They imposed it, called it "life,"
The BEASTS' deceit, their endless strife.



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Fears Are the Gallows

Fears are gallows,
Lies the axe,
Fight the evil,
Don’t look back.



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My Address

My address isn’t house or street,
But the city of the blind,
The realm where deafness fills the air,
The land of fools confined.
The structure—chains that bind.



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The Passing Years

The years go by, the fools grow more,
The further, dumber they become.
And so misfortune strikes the shore:
The dumber the world, the crueler some.



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Whose Board Is It, Anyway?

To whom is the board, for whom the game?
To many strangers, none the same.
This path is for the chosen few,
The rest just shovel through the blue.



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The Land of Dreams Nowhere

To live by dreams—such simple creed,
But all is trash, where tears may feed.
What’s a dream in such a place?
A folly—dreams lead to NOWHERE’s space.



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Citizen No One in the Land of Nowhere

In Nowhere, No One cannot fight
Fate’s cruel hand, or bear the blight.
The fool’s conscience fades with time,
Honor’s lost—spit on it, no crime.



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Liberation from Hell

A shift in "dimension" means death,
If you’re aware of it,
A chance to leave this solid breath,
Which’***** its lowest bit.

But first, you must live your life,
Full of creation’s spark,
And visions clear. If you stir strife,
You’ll never leave The Dark.



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We sit in burrows, talk and chatter,
Embracing lies, yet dream of bliss.
If "brothers" harm us—doesn't matter,
We'll break them down with iron fists.

But when the beasts in power tower,
Demand, command, and call the shots,
We hold our tongues and shrink in coward-
ice—even if they pour in toxins hot.

If they "request" with threats unspoken,
With job loss looming in the air,
Then slaves stay bent, with spirits broken,
While ******* sit on royal chairs.



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Step by step—too slow, too hollow,
Fades the path and meets its end...
Was it others you would follow?
Walk alone—don’t just pretend.

Few will share your thoughts sincerely,
Few will stand and see you through.
So keep moving, pushing fiercely—
Strength will grow inside of you.

If you grumble, lost and weary,
You will never make it through.



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Fools bear the cross—it's always fated,
The best are nailed, then left to die.
They call it fate—it's fabricated.
They spread the "plague", and filth runs high.

This is their game, their grand tradition,
To dull the minds, to twist and cheat.
A whole industry’s positioned
To breed the fools—their tool, their fleet.

And with sheer numbers, fools start crushing,
Stamping out the brightest minds.
Hold on, my friend—just keep on rushing,
This filth will fade with passing time.

The sun burns stronger, ever blazing,
For decades now, it lights the way.
Yet fools strike harder, blindly raging,
To break the best beneath their sway.



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We keep scratching, thinking, blinking—
Sawdust fills our heads, unshrinking.
Presses through our skin, revealing,
Makes all shouting less appealing.

Without chants and noise, we're hollow—
Winnie fools aren’t fit to follow.
If we fail to cheer in chorus,
Our great leader will abhor us.

Scratch until it bleeds, no slacking,
Or they'll call you vile and lacking.
If your sawdust spills and scatters,
Fresh is stuffed—the press still flatters.



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Probing Attack, or Overton’s Window

They send out fools—just light aggression,
To test how much the world will bear.
Once cracks appear, there’s no concession—
The mad battalions swarm in there.

The charge won’t stop; and soon, what’s shocking
Becomes the "norm," no more taboo.
It’s evil’s maw—forever clocking
What else it’s hungry to chew through.

The world grows numb, its mind corrupted—
These probes keep swarming, day and night.
And all "for care," so sly, so trusted—
The traitors feed us blatant lies.



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Catching the Golden Catfish

We drag out Happiness, gills shaking—
Still, it fights with all its might.
Light the candles, prayers making—
Churches, homes—but no delight.

Reeling in this stubborn creature
Proves to be a futile chore.
Could it be that Nature's feature
Keeps it slipping from the shore?

Don’t chase joy—it’s just a fiction,
Seek fulfillment, chase the deed!
Flip the script—your life's affliction
Comes from waiting for the bliss you need.



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Make It Sound More Sophisticated

Let the nonsense grow profounder,
Teach it high in college halls.
Fools will stand up even prouder,
Lying big while thinking tall.

Fake new science, like a preacher,
Took the priests' old feeding ground.
Speak too clear? Then every creature—
Even donkeys—won’t be bound.

Once the jargon starts to crumble,
Once they talk in simpler ways,
All their nonsense sounds like mumble,
Fading out in weak delays.



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Aging Children

Kids leave college, young and clueless,
Never growing, stuck in place.
Life will test them—cold and ruthless,
Filtering the hopeless case.

Few will rise, while most will wither,
Aged-up scouts with childish minds.
Yet among the beasts, they linger,
Ripe for graves their fate defines.

Such a fate is planned, constructed—
Grown-up minds aren’t meant to be.
Easier to keep them rusted,
Locked in Camps where none break free.

Once for scouts, the camps were standing,
Now they’re built with screens and codes.
No place there for minds demanding—
Only drones who take their loads.



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The Crossing

"Crossing over, crossing over!
Left bank, right—now drift in clover..."
No, it's Charon, grim and fated,
Not from myths—he’s here, he’s waited.

Souls of dead crowd all around him,
Off they go—new Earth to hound in.
Once again, they’ll feast and plunder—
That's the curse we're living under.

Hell itself is but a clinic,
***** ward—its grasp systemic.
Death won't free you—leave in sorrow,
Just to fall again tomorrow.



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The Press of Evil

Gagarin "flew beyond the sky,"
But left his camera behind.
We swallow lies and don’t ask why—
This fate was shaped for humankind.

It drains our will, it warps the mind,
And keeps the masses dull and tame.
A screen, a beer—just sit, unwind—
The honest ones are dead and shamed.

Then Yankees "landed on the Moon,"
Their cameras caught it all, no less.
And so, by propaganda’s tune,
They crushed us with their press of press.

Then more would come—false "plagues" were spread,
First just a test, then all-out game.
The world was drowned in CowID dread
To learn its place, to bow in shame.

That shame—a Global Cattle Camp,
Where "care" will be the siren’s call.
Your leash will be a data clamp—
A digital corral for all.



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Population Cut by Bovine Virus and War

First reduce, then crush the weak,
Those who remain, no mercy shown.
In Hell itself, there’s no retreat,
As Hell’s own end begins to grow.

A global Cataclysm looms,
It seals the fate, the final toll.
Genocide and fascist gloom—
They’ll pay the price, the heavy roll.



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Roof-Crawling

The tower falls, but slow, unseen—
It’s hardly noticed as it’s done.
A madman, calm and quite serene,
Can fool the world and still be spun.

In books and blogs, you’ll find the wreck
Of madness hiding in plain sight.
Disguised as wit, it’s all unchecked,
A twisted, ****** kind of might.

The sign is clear—no sense remains,
Just words all jumbled, empty, tossed.
In quiet madness, all that strains
Is fragile thought, forever lost.



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"GazMeat" Concern, "LiesBred" Trust

"GazMeat" runs the show, with lies,
"OilFear" keeps the lies intact.
The state’s own structure, full of ties,
Turns what was good into the cracked.

Is it a state, or just a mask?
CowID leaves doubts to grow,
The Puppetmaster takes the task—
And lets the beasts all rule below.



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Porridge with Meat and Butter

You can't spoil porridge with some butter,
Fear will bind the herd, no doubt.
Lies will lock them in and smother—
Then the slaughter’s coming out.



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What Did the Universe Tell the Moth?

"The Universe spoke..." you say,
But you're no zero in its sight—
You're a fat minus, led astray,
A bubble of ego, lost in flight.



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The Recurrence of the Bovine Virus

Strife—"strife" again. Thief,
Is it repeating, this grief?



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The Scoop, Matches in Stock

A scoop, some matches stashed away,
And soap upon the shelf so neat.
A vow was made—without delay—
No drinking, quiet, in defeat.



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Means of Building Communism

Ah, to be a pioneer—
Inspired by freaks, year after year,
To swear an oath, the party's call,
And claim "happy childhood" for all.
With tools of building, they'll raise you high,
While praising madness as the sky.



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Mask and Helmet

Mask is a helmet—at command,
The "people" move, just as they're planned.
In this hellish, twisted dance,
Fools crush the best with no chance:
A rose—a stone, it’s tossed aside,
The stone remains, the flower dies.



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More of the "Mohr" to Come.

More "Mohr" will come, no doubt,
If you’re a fool who’s quick to shout.
The idiot waits, the screen decides,
As if the truth within it hides.



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Big Money and the Rest

It’s not that you control the cash,
But money twists you, makes you fall—
It’ll use you for its every lash,
Until you’re lost, no self at all.



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Masha, Pasha, your delight—
To serve, believe, to wait in line.
The promised cup will come in sight,
With endless wealth—but not for thine.

What they’ll pour into that cup,
Fools aren't meant to ever know.
Day by day, it's filling up—
Sinking lower, down below.



--- Total 36 poems. ---

— The End —