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Apathy
11/14/04

The white face is mocking,
so it seems,
death's lifeless and bitter screams
sneering at nail-biting dreams
in a timeless world of blood rushing

Lakes of icy frozen blood
warm into a crimson flood
bullets float like fishing boats
blades of paper cut silent throats

Shelter now seems so remote
everyone has cast a vote
for the Lord of the Ring
Yet...
it doesn't mean a thing

The foundation's been eaten by termites
and over bearing parasites
sleeping through a mad awakening
like good little puppets on a string

Worker bees pay their taxes
while politicians grind their axes
injected with politics and Papacy
we the people overdosed...
on apathy

Into the chamber now recoiling
falling, clinging, trickling, flowing
Through a head the wind keeps blowing
an army of one is growing

Sometimes...
you're better off
not knowing

Art Of Pain
12/04/04

Art has no expression without
precious pain...
unsound as it may be
demented anguish
serves as universal glue
tethering flesh
to mortality

Smiles of labor ensue
the broken water
blessing the first pain
of humanity

The esplanade to Eros
disbands Libertine fools
drifting away at 60 mph
sucking on fish stories
in denial of the homeostasis
and digital truth

Liars heap rain sticks
upon the burning stones
of wisdom's fire
pain lives in the darkness
before their very eyes

Master artists appreciate
razor cut skies
commanding nocturnal winds
to senselessly beat
the nettles of fortune

The ridged swarm in worship
to the clap-trap of defeat
rather than embrace
the pain of change

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