Tag: dystopia
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SHITHOLE
In a damp, dank, rank tenement In my element I’m hellsent, hellbound, hell bent on stamping out Anyone else selling ground up brown on my stomping ground I key nose spice So good they accept a ridiculous price They score, I get prizes like I hit the high score Sort 20 guys one night Like…
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Murmurs from the end
Skies disguised as oceanbottoms No more Everest corpse blue. Missile scorched Two left tube three this morning at twelve past two Troupe two, troop corps nine reporting for duty Static, even the emergency channels. Scanning. Keep scanning. No recordings on repeat like television had imagined Survivors report to this beach or that base within reach…
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Process Church
Boot stomped moneymaker, Picasso-rearranged faces, razed acres The prisoners they’ve taken, overnight made ancient Given all the punishment they could take by agents He stoops to say “Bite the pavement.” Across thin ice, blithely skating No escape’s what they’re saying Lions once; now tamed, gentled, lamed. More than a bit of truth around pizzagate But…
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The moment of the bomb
Brothers feuding, duelling, to the last trumpet’s tune Strumpets strewn in gutters, plootered on glue, age of Pluto Fire consumed everything, ash upon it all Black snowfall cascade, the flesh coming undone, sloughing away at touch Like an eight minute mic’d crumpet gushing butter One last crushing blow, then an age-long stillness Windless moment forever…
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SOFIANNA
Signs of violent times only vigilants and locust-dieted diviners hight Lines of hopeless grim-eyed people queueing outside Seeking any light-leaking idea of what’s divine The most unrighteous portend to charitable piety Gospels proven timeless, updated for modern climes Brazenly committing violent crimes, the wicked march triumphal Expressing now their once-idle umbrage The blood the blood,…