Tag: OC

• Glare from ignited libraries

  I have spent much time reading, entreating with the deceased for rare anecdote I despoil their codices whilst wearing their robes and golden things It is not always easy, the poorhouse is ever needy for feeding Nothing is ever as it seems, we are not forging paths but leadlings Things on leashes, never to be…

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• The fearless cannot flee

  The fearless cannot flee, even as those holding walls fall to scree They see no danger, death seems not only distant but an impossibility They ride out from the safety of the inner keep to the overtaken streets Blades in hand, shaken aloft, you will never take us alive, they adopt Bear fury, conjuring from…

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• Lost branches

  I have to search online to read about half the family In pursuit of lost and matching genius; all is vanity Not quite lost tribes but got no eyes on them I’d scale the Wall for the man who guarantees me Harrenhal Up early upturning soil getting worms, above me larks turning Like knights at…

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• Dripped out cannibal

  Sawny bean adjacent Diamonds like gleaming beans, sceptre with a jacinth Killed more kids than the religion of Hannibal Vice cameras coming in, I’m a famous cannibal Infamous, my crimes give them a lot of ammo I will not pass through a needle camel But a man’s flesh has passed my lips Married my enamel,…

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• Weekday slacktivist

  Weekend off Palestine posting to get poleaxed on pills at Electric Picnic Ten thousand Irish voices lifting and lilting, singing Come Out Ye Black and Tans Broad black band around my shoulder, in my uniform handsome dancing Prohibition on them, brand new tax, 800 years haven’t gotten you back Activity without ever leaving the pad,…

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