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The Ossuary
05:34
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No love
Between us
As we stagger through the motions
Lingering past
The daylight hours
In unrelenting fever
Staring down the flared neck
Of a well
Where wishes go to die
All notions of peace
Chase lies through clenched teeth
Vulnerable, predictable, alone
Wallowing in the mud - you'll be left behind
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Inquietude
07:13
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Longing for the ether
The gentle birdsong tears into my lapsing pose
Plagued by what I could have been
And the gentle birdsong tears into my slowly lapsing pose
I am slave to your comfort
I am dirt to your dogma
Forever
Ingratiating myself
Howling after lost compassion
In this stillnes I have stirred
Unkempt nails wounding the leather,
Eyes - marbles in glass
Smothered by concrete towers, drenched in sweat
A cold needle's point is felt,
Somewhere
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4. |
In Division
08:31
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Thrown right back into the fray
Leaving under false pretense
You take one look - I take the blame
To find the son
Naked and sobbing
Under failure's banner
Stumbling at the door
The sullied become cleansed
Their tongues in knots
Poised to hide away from shame
Tainted with some venom foul
Behold: a Home
One finds, heart bare - a barren womb;
They dare not change.
It's in your eyes
(A certain guilt)
Do you breathe, at rest?
In facing away from the sun;
A snake that coils forever
In your porcelain frame
Your sterile eyes
A snake that coils forever
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5. |
Unto You
03:18
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La lenta máquina del desamor,
los engranajes del reflujo,
los cuerpos que abandonan las almohadas,
las sábanas, los besos,
y de pie ante el espejo interrogándose
cada uno a sí mismo,
ya no mirándose entre ellos,
ya no desnudos para el otro,
ya no te amo,
mi amor.
[poem by Julio Cortázar]
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Glass Houses
06:02
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Sleep closely escapes
Seeps through the corridor
A wealthy liminum
Narrow pathway, marble tiles
Abandon facades
As brothers no more
Should one regret?
Retrace the steps,
Exhausting every option?
Closing a door
To leash in all thought
Relentless in pursuit of your pride
Wound without cause
An animal at heart.
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Ashbreather
10:35
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Courting death at dawn's command,
We're not unlike our faithful offspring.
At an idol's throat for virtue of
Perfection
Our hands slapped down
Unanswered prayers
Echo the fall
With each mindless gasp
There flees my escape
A listlessness
Follows in its stead;
A veil, a barrier
As I tread fire
We left you here
Breathing fire, now
(Nesting in the face of this hearth
A stubborn coal
Still bearing a grudge
Your teary smile, a foregone goodbye)
Rage incarnate, a celebration
It's all we know and it flows free to flood our home
Spit cinders of subconcious grief into
Aching furnace fantasies
Putting into words well quartered
Aimed intention to hurt another
Set to wait under a prophet-moon
Speech comes to naught when uttered with this maw
It spews forth ash
This perfume
Fragrant more than any flower spring could bear
The rust and char, the salt
And love forged brittle
Persisting
Tethered to a realm of languor
Reel forth, endure a hopeless crawl
Looking for scabs to pick for sustenance
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Still No Closure
03:11
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Mistral Warsaw, Poland
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