victims

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I never cared enough to learn how to believe
without slathering nausea and revolt
but nobody is spared the dragging of crosses

I've always been fond of weakness & vices
our history reeks of emollient shackles

the archaic Greece
around starved ankles

the dead limbs from the bloodless amputations
victims of the black marker are spread all over
this family tree-asylum

I cling to the promise that comes with its black brushes
a death row inmate refusing reprieve

and thanks his firing squad

 

[Jabberwocky]

I've always been fond of weakness & vices



dead limbs from the bloodless amputations
of that black marker
are spread all over this family tree-asylum

 

[cduggles]

but nobody is spared the dragging of crosses

I cling to the promise that comes with its black brushes

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