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Wreck​-​Election Day

from APESTATE by FAUS

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"if it cannot grow it must die"

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is it white?
is it tired?
is it losing its way of life?
is it prodded?
is it marred?
it should die.
it cannot sing
without retreat
it stares through iron
and shows its teeth
will its plague
be preserved
for display
and example
in an ode to the world i could hardly let out another breath
the mew and snare had seized tight til no gasp left from my neck
everything was ever black and led the blind into its sense
a rupture came we forged the oat and darkness crept in
everything in line was clinging to its warmth
and though the vessels held them tight their meaning was diffused
it scattered all across the plains where denser blood had pooled
a nail pinned the skin to grain and locusts came forth
the nascent herd and rhetoric were covered in their crumbs
enough to spit an image that knew nothing of the world
where any line or hymn or scale would tempt one to its kin
the beaded eyes reflected fire, recoiled and refused to walk again
what if nothing were awake?
what if eden never came?
what if iniquity had put out roots and all the world were snake?
we aren’t the same
your ugly shines vain
argent from the sun
to still lines it clung
you can smell it rife within the air
beat the dust from her
there is nothing new around you
and nothing to unfurl
why won’t they keep with the order
the draw of the tide
the counsel of moss
where all is alive
down
drag your mirth down
what good are rats without disease?
the things they carried
were as shale across the sea
but the empire will come to an end
i clung to her maw and let it drown
sing to black and white keys
that pulse wild into being
and we breath loud
teeth ran everywhere
there was sultry in her hair
and i ate it
down to bone
we rise sojourn as the fig
her crop had pardoned us to move less lightly
so we buried our feet
every commonplace withered to history
so we kept to disease
seal the womb and shame the beast
be here with me
if it cannot grow it must die

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from APESTATE, released May 4, 2018

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