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Feeds the Withheld
03:18
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Crows' nest bigger than the horizon is wide
Mesmerize
Cries like a canary in a coal mine
I sense fine
Send the terra cotta
off to fight the cold war
This latest lane, unwavering
Obeisance
Feeds the withheld in me
In preparation for the Sabbath
We are bypassing the tavern
Attached to distractions
and the mastery of feeling
Wheelwrights delighted
by Eiffel levels of
fruition
If it's all the same
Cruelty is no longer leisure
It is the defeat of the ergonomic
Parodical trysts are the only affection
I know mine
They have maimed
He wants heat
Both sides of the fence
be treated with negligence
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Susquehanna
03:10
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Every angle, aggrandized
By the lemon prick of melancholy
Thalamic development stunted
By the centripetal shelter from the gait of its race
Male seahorse lascivious
Stomachs the crib of roses
Open to interpret
The less timid, the less exquisite
A prison experiment
A Sisyphus on the terrace
A military marriage
A bribery that founded
A hibernation for a more overt action
A river by which we will convene
Concubine, all mine, alacrity, two or three times the charm
Wash up on shore with a first purl
Clamber up the steps to be reduced to a murmur
Harmonious as the lilt of the solar flare
The brutish fluid that wrapped and snapped the wrist
Plant a kiss, grasp at the ribs
If there ever was a place
A time to build the bird a cage
If there ever was a place to do it,
It's right here
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Stalk burns by the bid of Mercury's retrograde
Pylons the patients drive right over in this Sodom
Betting on the freshest ankle-biter sink its teeth inside of the lamb
Passengers up to the cockpit, School of Athens restive over absent wolves,
which never through the daylight haunt
Chimes spell out an eldritch glamour
of the cavalier, casualties of New Roman Times
You will see the sky crawling
Undeterred
A pulsar calling forth with gothic voice and wedding gown
In a fighting stance foreign to the gullible
Locked on armor, arson-colored eyes
Who are they to say how I identify
When the matter surrenders its parcel
and leviathan decline who to soldier for
I'll be done owing anyone
Just wait 'til it walks
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Sharp ground tastes like sour forage
Scratch the back you are capable of stabbing
At an arachnid rate
Anima subverting the straight and narrow
Knowing God is rotting in the watchtower
Imam upon the pulpit spouting indecision
Underneath a flickering offer to be a martyr
An argument that led the victim to the water
The broad shoulders of trauma augment the iridescent
The unaided eye of a tireless bigot
That thinks the Ship of Theseus is
anything but what it started as
Unlike you we are nouveau
This ship is null but a fractal
Flaunt atomic 'til it's cold
Autotheist biome
Over the garden wall an army of fifteen million to preoccupy
Some day we won't have to come out
Just say we are, and that will be
When you reduce life to this
You never see
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Cardinal Chance
05:24
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A harrowed incident
Yawns for the heir apparent
Met to protect the newborn
Pressured to invest in prowess
Driven to confess to abrasion
of the expert, disenchanted
Drawn by the vessel
Over cardinal chances
Has it ever occurred to you
I measure belief through
All the threats
I hold against your dark
Fragile liaison covered up
Spirit hung then sentence be
The target of the darts
You've lived all
you hope to find in this
Complacent in the fluid
We exit in the same fashion
You were mistaken
The way it transpired was by design
All your relatives
Are collateral damage
We share in the catatonia
Only, I control your movements
Sobbing like a sinner in my palm
Now that you're familiar with exile
It's all yours
Even your darling has the robes
of the rival on the floor
So you forget I'll steal your breath
and leave you and the truth to be unearthed
But you lied, and retreated
to your old way of life
The only thing burned
was your assurance
You fucking coward
I'll hang you at the precipice
First shot was not mine
You're scared, as I'm scared
Let it go we've been absolved
Altered in ways
We'll forever punish ourselves for
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Acceptance in Feathers
03:08
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Fish covered in feathers endeavor to slip in,
noticed and unnoticed, just to pocket some Lincolns
Sobbing in the corner, unable to find the link in
Safe word necessary to maintain order
Flood the estuary to pride the sorcerer
Done the most to ward off foreclosure
Still whored as a sort of effigy of the deformed and handicapped,
unable to properly handle a candy apple
Stop when you hear the alarm, but don't cause a scene
Peered through the venue doors to come upon a barn,
replete with moments like these conceived
The rapport is far beyond damaged, unable to be restored
by cardamom, amethyst, or any tokens of appreciation
The gifts that facilitate the daily activities of the each and every,
suffocated by tall tales of the non-defaulter as the creep
Should they ask for more, tell them enough has occurred
to deserve to be ameliorated
Put to task, on the table, a meal, when prejudice has faded
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Efface the exigency, beckon the plant to its knees,
repeat in neighboring cities to beat a redirection
Tailgate everywhere they long to stake a claim,
burrow into the hallow and show how to spring from the core
Secure the wharves,
the concierge is sure to place them parallel,
to see themselves
The fleeting health is seen in full detail,
it's real
So-called sterile fountainhead,
dove in the landfill
Your heart ended someone else's,
yet I still see you everywhere
Resilience is applauded,
unless you tamper a witness
Efface the exigency, beckon the plant to its knees,
repeat in neighboring cities to beat a redirection
Tailgate everywhere they long to stake a claim,
burrow into the hallow and show how to
build a ceiling over expectancy,
as the rejects return to infancy
Fight the feeling, as you've instructed,
come on, enjoy the torture voguishly encased
With every forlorn pawn sworn in,
the endgame grows evermore tender
The final few layers give way,
and the memory serves them well
You will not get away with this,
all the fallen will resurrect
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Pangaea
14:18
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Filling the wilderness with every
monument of ancient sight
No provisions can turn the court to a palace
Nor can sprout a name as proudly referential
What you have bestowed is beyond the
scope of my courage
I carry this with me the times I crash into your snow angels
Desultory in the vast albatross,
I signal a small involvement from the ways
you tugged my arm,
and guided me along the ripples
I see mistakes in all evolution,
but all of it past my point of arrival has
been flawless by your grace,
notwithstanding the vantage I cling to
A balancing act, perpetual, gentle motion
As long as there is sought a great perhaps,
still I lap the nurturing crucible,
for a dawn looms from which I am
cornered by torment unabated,
and my only known creator has taken
the ardor with her, into an hour unturned
Titles never feel generous enough
I am addled as to how to love a parent,
but this is the letting, come whatever may
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The only reason to wish the existence of God,
is so there would be someone to blame,
when there is no more material to bridge the gaps,
established by radical glances past the forthcoming
No one has ever stopped what is to happen,
let alone pushed it subdural
At the fore of the inescapable
Where, ever, has belief earned prestige
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