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This I Pray
04:16
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Let it take me this I pray
Kneeling yet before the tide
Rise, my dear, and touch the skin
Breaking on these jagged rocks
Glistening in the devil's sun
My body wants your full embrace
Kiss my lips and fill my lungs
As you smother in and out
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2. |
536 AD
08:32
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The tale is written in the trees
Comparisons of ancient rings
Stories told of fading heat
Under a blanketed sky
"For the sun gave forth its light
without brightness, like the moon
During the whole year"
Or so Procopius wrote
The dimmed heavens loom over plots
Which do not birth the annual yield
The failure of the crops to grow
Triggering the famine times
Prayers to see her dissipate
Upon the lips in many tongues
To feel again the sun's embrace
Go unanswered in 536 AD
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All architecture now mausolea
Testaments to distant deeds
Nothing of note is walled within
As even the ghosts have wandered on
Overgrowth to reclaim the concrete lands
Vines in time will coat the gray
Stretching out to hold the bricks and rebar tight
Always slipping in our war
Against the hubris in our past
Creeping closer to the hour
Time's run out. It always would.
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4. |
Hostage Situation
05:03
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Caustic fingertips with a burning touch
Type out the hostage note
Folllow along to
The clacking arhythm of the keys
List of demands to loved ones who
Wait with bated breath
Stretching fingers with a long sigh
Time to hit send
Patiently waiting by the phone
A scheme for extortion
Let's hope they don't uncover
Taken and the taker are the same
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5. |
A Capital Disease
06:06
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Scraping from the data mines
Pulling pulp from the skin
The bytes are portioned out
For spoon to mouth
Force fed by engineers, employed as thieves
No thought for oversight
The monied do as they please
Technocrats as oligarchs
A capital disease
Armies of engineers employed as thieves
They know your smiling face
Plastered on their screen
From rows in server farms
Pictures housed within
The great surveillance state is watching you
Algorithms predicting who will do the crime
Biased coders judging you with every line
The great surveillance state wants you on your knees
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To the happy times and the often cruel
The means to an end for the right to rule
Not content to survive but to dominate
The demagogue thrives on hate
The rotting corpse of the vagrant left in the ditch
The gilded homes of the landed rich
The cries of those who simply wish to be
Are crushed again by this tyranny
So like a flag in the wind, we move and twist
A tattered symbol, a broken fist
A crumbling wall, a contentious divorce
The splintering ships of an abandoned port
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Hollow dank caves reek with the slime and stagnant water on the
walls. Eroding patterns that follow within the cracks to part the stone. Attrition, submission, to the whims of the ebbs and to the flows. Time moves onward to an end that none of us will ever see.
On the scales traversed there is little point pontificating the horizon's distance
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8. |
One Step Ahead
05:24
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Branches fall over head
Tumbling to the leaves
Drying bark that peels off
Curling in the heat
Shuffling through browned earth
Leaving trails of red
Wafting notes of still wet blood
It follows
Trudging down a makeshift path
One step ahead
Darkness blanketing
the runner's form
Is that a noise in the distance,
or just another trick of the mind?
How long before the sands
Say out of time?
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Ixian Athens, Georgia
IG: ixianmusic
Postcybergrindingnoisysludgetechnoindustrialblackeneddoom.
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