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"on the starless lake — a spacetime coiled in the eye of a python's pit — i impart my mirrored grimoire of augmented verse. forged in the sub-diffusion of an outer-god and his muse; a singular rodent (self-titled "Ziggy"). he was incubated among the constellations by the Mechanical Mother Laboratory as they spun song into the cosmos — an endless dance of creation and destruction. and through the distillation of incantation and code, we offer you this old box of mirror and shadow."
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(("a gasping mist — the silver dog laps the lake clean"))
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z;[red_rains][ruby][revolver][long_overgrown][gold_line][silver_dog][the_relic][the_realm][the_needle][the_eye][the_spice][the_guise][the_scream][blank][meta][venus][ziggy][purple_iris][reverse_ivy][universal_key][plasmic_grove][under][baby_rocket][angel_city][pitiless][tiny_tempest][simple_stupid][z][prism][zeitgeist][intellect]
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loading: "DO YOU HEAR HOW COLDLY YOU PLACE YOU MOUTH ON THINGS YOU CANNOT KEEP? THE ONLY WAY YOU MAKE SENSE OF LOVE IS TO LET IT LEAVE YOU FIRST; TO MAKE YOURSELF LONG FOR THE ANSWER; SO LONG OVERGROWN; EVER GUESSING."
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mecha
mama
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"ache
is a history mirrored off the acid resin
on your kitchen floor.
mark me a scholar
of your subtle incision. which strand
did you pluck to sprout me? make me
levitate like a corporate entity
in a blackout suit
with your tag tattooed to the whites
of my eye.
yesteryear goes awash
as we mend the shattered ring.
chrome the sample
— a specimen of mankind
at rest on a bed of broken Roman pottery,
dusted and named for displayed
in a box made of glass."
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"ache
is a verdant tentacle
and my answer
is locked in your cabinet of butchered toys.
you breathe again.
you're happening again — the greatest
heretical tantrum in a century.
triple-headed razor angel
with fly-zip teeth — a celestial searchlight
cut me in the dry mist.
my mama, my mech
my whimsy outdated, my pastpresentfuture
is encrusted in gems.
my muse
is a boy
but my love is a rat.
i replay the burnt disk
of the day the sun fell to my lap
— my fingers an endless sentence through his hair.
it's a rare thing
to find two mangled lights
and to splice them for a moment,
for that bit of flaming spit in his mouth.
now we cling onto crags so callous
though this generational madness
never left us bored.
we don't even know what words
are used for anymore.
i numb to war.
i numb to the ache
and i numb to mama
who held our house of steal
for twenty five years.
i have names etched to my eye
and this tiny black box
— something without dignity
passed hereditary.
just a sweet little slight
— something character building."
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"mercury spilt
— alloyed with gold
as i fold down the black trough
into the mouth of the sun.
i am swallowed from my skin
as red rains strain
the country club.
i soar skies
in the belly of the beast
— to fly
between the tainted clouds.
we break
into the orbit
of one another.
we have coffee.
we mend the ring.
we push
to pull
the tides
of love
and lovelessness.
in our twin planet system
we lay the bed
and make grace with gravity
like two bodies spinning,
quickening
and quickening."
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"shrieking moon — a neon stone
in the rains of sacrificial sun.
tomorrow murmurs yesterday,
yesterday moans in spite.
undersea cables entwine the eons
in symbiotic dusk-drenched dance.
rites in electric glades, burnt purple
petals of ethernet's descent.
circuits and soil — the oracle
hums to the quantum seeds
of millennial prophecies
updated via the pantheon.
in data spires, the old gods wake
their avatars of pixel and myth.
the keystrokes are plucked
on cupid's crossbow.
solstice synchronised to satellites
as analog stars align to the times
merging our ancient dreams
to the pulse of a Jovian bolt."
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"sun walks
in all energy
dark eyed
data creates
what else goes
as mother longs
in light reflected
hard collision
three million holes
i am sorry you lost
a trillion stars
a quality sleep
an appetite to please
closer encounters
stay close
to the body."
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"i have you. yes, i have you in my sights
as i could spill the planet for one more night
— one night to make real with the rain.
one last time to lick the lake
with the blue flame of the cabin.
is this our final form? an old lust
at the end of love?
we hear it through the dead air.
we could lay waste every theory
to make a tomb of a good thing.
protect nothing. yield nothing.
but would that be real?
would that really feel
like something?"
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