Tag: dystopia
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Glimpses of tomorrowmaybe
Her visits are never timely but always serve to enfire me I’ve just now razed the batch about which her query was raised, so she’s just in time like a musical phrase Flickering fires licking at uninnocent files Adjusting them from whole cloth to ash pile The return of animism and old lives among the…
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Dark in Dark’s Clothing
Puzzling fogs descend from the fen Symbols, omens and signs of the end Grinding locks and cogs, ninth of the ten Rancid meats hurled from Eastern skies, high tides Tithes and tied bonds, tendering of debts, surrendering to death Downward, downward tends the West, the fallen crest The millionth coin toss so it lands on…
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BOOT STOMPING TOMORROW²
White gives to red Red, red surrender Bottles upended Dawn roused to a wet bed, again Hope turns to dread Noble words unsaid Fitting lips unmet February is gelid Temperature gone unsteady Home is a mindset, a mindset at an end Blowing out the last ember and it’s always winter next Can’t read Teletext without…
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World between
Everything looks and sounds like a John Carpenter movie Synchronised movement, O Fortuna on the last bassoon In a hidden bazaar the last bastion of culture, the last orange ashes Of the old world which passed us quicker than a fast train does Dove white the eyes of the light denied who worked in mines…
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Futures sighted through a firebombed aperture under sniperfire
Turn back the clocks Unboxing my sarcophagus Embarking on my odyssey Hope they have my sausages in Tartary Exposed cocks in the mockery gallery Suddenly they are glad of me when the roman ghost raised his gladius In toast to his owner, the lord of hosts Marshswell Manor how they mark my post Bopping to…
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