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Open the empirical borders of reality
Slain self-serpents sent southwards
My breath (idolatrous) marks my path in paragraphs
An illiterate written statement
My words, finalised, read only the following:
“Cuneiform and hieroglyphic, that is what this might as well be
My language is not yours
I learned your words and grammar
and yet that which I speak is mine alone”
Beating at the gate of the usurped under-throne
You brought me here, will you not allow me entry?
I’d carve Your maxims into mine flesh ten-times over if You will it
No? Then there is the path that I will carve for myself here
The path and valley of my own way.
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With Reckless Abandon
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The target-designators are made and met
You shall ride to greet them
on theirs and yours last days
the mount of infinity.
Clambering against the adversary of the other
makeshift in our melee, boundless self-infliction
You have forgotten the meaning of honour,
whilst I was never taught it.
Darkness succumbs unto all!
Darkness, my self reflection!
Empty eyes, all that I have to see with
A tongue not fit for tasting molten iron
And a fire-prod against my spine
You have deceived me once
but my eternity is mine own way!
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At The Gates of Tlālōcān
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Licking at the rain has often been my pastime
The sky is my penultimate gallowmaster
Breath held inwards, expelled for none
That is the sole trail of the soul, is it not?
My bastion will never be of this earth
My retirement is not within this life
Do you ever really learn to count backwards?
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Shackle that within yourself that should be drowned
Send it into a desert of endless mirage
Breath the (new) air, and taste the change.
Mask the face
Glove the hands
Encase the feet
Clog the throat
Strike the neck
Strike the neck
Strike the neck
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Condemn your Eucharist!
Shadow the affirmations
Building myself on your sins
Whose worse enemy do I then become?
The invention of Antichrist
Perpetually unliving yet undying
The See’s Holy cross makes your bed
so that you may be strangled by its sheets.
Bastardisation descended from rapist patriarchs
In the age of the hallucinogen, why stick to books and sermons?
The great mock-cross bearer mastered such chemistry long ago.
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In Both Hands
06:11
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Paint the cloth of afar
Relinquish that control, over the apogee
Tarnish the film over the rotten canvas
Ash yourself with ochre and yeti fur
Tyrants!
Make the change with gracious verdict
Cross the gavel-lines, demand the call be made
Open the cage of apathy.
Apotheosis!
Clamber the reveller, judge the next mark as such
Maintain nothing on this side of the fence
Take the only true choice you could ever (hope to) make
Destiny is in both hands!
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“I have learned to synthesise misery;
deciding now to lay its seeds and its children’s seeds before us all”
The pain is created and grown, but not harnessed
I am removed from agriculture of all forms
You have only learned synthesise yourself.”
Synthesise yourself.
Red tourniquet bulls charge into stockades at lightning speeds, in reverse
and bouncing from the walls are their neuroses, thrown from their strong yet breakable clutches.
Synthesise yourself... and become perished to the world!
II
Freed from skin and flesh
The wings I have learned to forget are returned
And my journey made real again.
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