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Re-Disfigure
08:05
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Skin growing cold
Thoughts unforetold
Bloom, fate's decree
My end, I finally see
Arise
Disfigure
Your eyes
To blind you from this world of terror
Your death is just a moment away
You live your life in fear of future pain
Trapped in this body
Comfort becomes mute
Unfathomable
Fear of the unknown
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Each year
These walls
More ravenous
Ten percent or more
Rekeyed
These locks
More casualties
Drywall soaked in blood
Where is your just cause?
Clean cut class traitor
Trickle down crisis schemer
Elephant, blue tie
Where is your just cause?
Bloodshot
Carpal
Production's up
Forty-five, survive
A wreath of nails and muscle
Broken spines and sinew pillars
And a callous-crusted roof
And I’m selling cartilage and tendons
For fragments of pumice
Scraping by, shaving off
Scarring and gnawing and shattered
Thirty three point three
Repeating
And another six and a quarter
On the commute
To burnt retinas and acid reflux
Wasted on plastic
And check stock
And Andies
How may I direct your call?
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I'll become anything you want me to be
I'll change myself to fit your needs
(No)
Cover up my flaws; throw a mask on my face
Now I'm unknown and know my place
(No)
I am unique
I am unknown
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Ever since I learned how to want, I have vomit black smoke
It pours from my mouth and out my skin, and it turns my teeth to tar
It is choking my home and earth. I’m in love with the taste
The air is no longer as comforting without a hint of carbon
My smoke has filled every crevice. It is the grass, and the rivers, and the bricks with which we build
I was listening to the news today. A man died of carbon monoxide poisoning. He was 43 and had two cars and a house built on a lake - muddy, and shallow. The last taste in his mouth was of iron. First responders found his body 86 hours later, bloated and floating in the water, but the electric company refused to take responsibility for his death and repossessed the remains of his home
There is no life without smoke. It is desire, and right, and filth. We breathe impurity with prejudice
Ever since we learned how to want, we have vomit black smoke. Our walls are stained; wood scorched
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We gather today to condemn the false god Helios
Whose violence dare scorch our fair skin alone
An act of bigotry that he not recognize our superiority
For his crimes we will shoot him from the sky
So we will never
Burn
Never to repent
Free of consequence
From our righteous hate
And now the moment I've waited for
Your fucking death
That’s right, you ignorant fucking bigots
So blinded by hatred for those different than you
So quick to victimize yourself
No longer will you project your evil onto the innocent
And now you all shall
Burn
Repent for your victims
At long last consequence
For your cowardly hate
One by one, all of you will die
We will have our justice
For our dear leader: your tiny lips sewn shut, your veil removed
Embarrassed and humiliated, your decapitated head planted on the stake
For the supremacist: a flamethrower to the face
You shall worship your skin no longer
To he who wished conversion: the electric chair for many months
To the enforcers, who pulled the trigger on the innocent: a pack of rabid dogs
And your remains in the troughs
For the greedy
For the exploitive
We will take back what was always ours
And you will die with nothing
Watch you burn
Bury your toxic history
This world is ours once more
Burn every symbol of your being
Incinerated
Forgotten as we rise above
Nothing shall grow from your ashes
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Switchblade of regression
Buried in a trojan horse of reason
Your vitriol will never cut
The way the scalpel has shaped me
Bleed
Bleed
I will never bleed enough for you
Bleed
Bleed
I will never bleed enough for you
Until I'm pale and lifeless
You can't kill what you've already buried
As the last drop splatters
I laugh as you drown in my filthy faggot blood
I will die a martyr
You will die a hateful fucking cunt
I am more real than anything you know
Haunting your empty dreams
Your hatred, a terminal cancer
You are a parasite who lived and died by my flesh
Terf scum never worthy of womanhood
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Ouroboros (DM 2113)
05:24
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Ever since I learned how to want, I have vomit black smoke
It pours from my mouth and out my skin, and it turns my teeth to tar
There's a millipede crawling in my ear
Out one eye and through the other
I can feel every one of its legs
Writing fiction
Boiling water foaming at your mouth
Burning tongue flesh stirs the tinder
Melting gums and teeth demand
Stay distraught
Stay distraught
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“And on your deathbed
You inexplicably said
‘The sun is masking the clouds’”
He gracefully unlocks the door
And we wade across the threshold
As six black eyes bore into mine
He pacifies the animal
A cursory glance o’er my back
Reveals the light receding
And at the first of nine sharp ivory gates
My final thought in crystal:
“And I have become the drought”
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Enter the delusion
Paths become limitless
The past becomes infinite
Future becomes obsolete
Time, a vision never spoken
Life, a dream never awoken
Pain, a mystery abandoned
Pleasure, constant taken for granted
Lay down your reality
Lay down your freedom
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Breathe
Festering lungs
Deprived of
Oxygen
Sycosis
Lining your
Engorging
Lymph nodes
Selfish
Such intrusive thoughts
Disregarded conversations
Abusive
Elation
One less confining relationship
Shut off your phone
Pretend you're asleep
Roll on your side
Curled legs to your chest
Between the gnawing teeth in my stomach
And the knives growing out of my bones
I couldn't clean the salt out from your eyes for the rust
Silence
Just one more sleepless night before we speak
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