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You were Sacrificed on the Altar of Innocence.

Does the inkling stain
of an untattooed hole
and another teethless grin
explain the sinking shame
of a sunken soul?
Needled punctured spirit
of unholy porous stories
get underneath the skin
creepy crawling minutes
a minor’s corpus quarried.
Evanesced trauma and potential
left odd outlined fingerprints
like belief absolving sin
by the purported reverential
Godly eyed/bedeviled glints.

I was Sacrificed on the Altar of Innocence.

Still misshapen flat screeching; grief.
Childer’s; forsaken crescendoed deliverance.
Open-mouthed caves; youth’s open graves.
Yearn to be filled; in muddy melodied relief.
The undertaker only bends; to dissonance.

We are all Sacrificed on the Altar of Innocence.

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Pray tell, Janus,
how, does, it, feel?
Does, your steel’s,
duplicitous, reflection, reappear?
When, the, officed, place,
your, only-thought, used to, lay,
it’s, bulbous head,
blossoms, into,
a, tangible idea?
Does, the bedrock’s, stele,
make, flowering mettle,
of, the insecure hay?
And, from, the ore,
did, a, garden-variety,
blacksmith, bow, kneel, and, forge,
a sword, for, you, to, falsely, slay,
the poltergeist’s, of, those, evil,
sons, and, daughters, seeded by,
that, shiny, yet, mistrusted,
Monarchy of Fear?

So, pray tell, Janus,
how, does, it, feel?
Does, your steel’s,
duplicitous, reflection, disappear?
When, your mettle, is, made molten?
Does, it, maim, to see,
your, valued core, first, loosen,
then, wobble, as, you, backtrack, sore,
and, falter, on hearing, the, magma mists,
of, you, hiss, and, squeal?
Is, cerulean, gold, scarlet, and, purple,
all, that, you, listen to, here?
Does, the, imperious, court,
within, your mind, reveal, only,
Knaves-Jesters-Jacks-and-Jokers?
And, does, the, gilded line,
(you speak of naught),
that, you, and, your; Kings, and, Queens, crossed, of yester,
split; all, of, your faces, in, two,
with; royal-blue, hot, i-ron, pokers?

The answers, as always, were; curved, and,
swerved. In, a, spineless, motion, with, gall, but, without, feeling, or, nerve. Pride,
watched on, unaware, of, the fall, that, lay, beyond, the cliff, where, evil, is, served.

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What-if-that-dream-we-
had-where-we-are-all-
fall-
ing-
is-
sim-
ply-
the-
coll-
ect-
ive-
sub-
con-
sci-
ous-
of-
our-
ho-
me-
pla-
net-
call-
ing?
The
lad-
der-
to-
cli-
mb-
bac-
k-up-
see-
ms-
to-
go-
on-
for-
ever-
and-
the-
clo-
ck-
at-
the-top-keeps-on-
striking-ten-past-never.

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The
evil, vi-
triolic, m-
arrowed, m-
emories, that,
travel, through,
hollow-boned, w-
ords, come-forth;
a, cerulean, reverie,
from, the, decaying,
skeleton, of, a, whale’s,
mouth, and, sweep, the,
landscape, like, a, desola-
ting, tsunami-wave, of, cada-
verous, cartilaged, evocations,
destroying; lives, loves, relation-
ships, and, long, lost, treasuries.
                                 Drowned.
                     Never,
                to,
           be,
found.

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I, reluctanly, recall…
Walking,
without, a purpose. To,
a, sacked, disowned, &,
treeless, destination.
Without, labour, a name,
or, spread, tangible
roots.
Balking,
at, the, persistent, promenade,
of, time. In, all, it’s; direct-
ions. It’s; eons, &, the, resistant,
nature, of, my; permanently,
belligerent,
boots.
Constant. Hair, stood, shakily,
talking,
incoherently. Finely, dressed,
yet, unemployable, and, meandering,
while, wearily, wearing, it’s;
hirsute.

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A, Norwe-
         gian, fjord,
             overlooking, loftily.
                        Like, sixteen-
                        aged, potential,
                   love. Like, several,
                         protege’s; full,
                           and, predicted,
                                            futures.
                           The, raven’s, eye,
                   intersects, the snow,
                       as, though, a, beauty-
spot, on, translucent, skins; a-black
-serpentine-rock-set-in-silver-sutures.
           I, counted, to, nine, as, the
magic, faded……… Mountainous,
                    terrain, murmured, with,
                           feathered, subtlety.
“To be, a fjord, is, to, truly, view,
   the world, &, know, cascading, change,
                      over, those, that, are, newer.”

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…dust. Ethereal disgust;
the, revolver, Earthly,
expires, coo d’etats. Droning,
are; discharges, of, mistrust.

Early, empires, of, devilment. Driven-on;
gritty, caustic, roads,
of, gristled, carbon, and, skin.
Exuviated, by, serpentine; clouds, gusts.

Makes, death; evolve.
Caught, in, each, tyre-tread,
is, every, copied, dynasty;
crushed, done, then… Chaos.
Eventually, everything,
self-destructs.

From, erstwhile, meagre,
nihilism, upended. Cometh,
mere, scintillating, diamonds. Of,
their; cognition, desires, meat. Dust…

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A picket-line/
crossed-can/
leave-a-little/
man-lost/
despite-being/
just-a-boy/
when-the-strikes/
took-place./
Boundaries/
embossed/
leave/
dumbstruck/
picketed-rods/
strewn-across/
backs-of-polloi./
Uncled-pike./
Coked-hate./
The-coaly/
burrows/
are-filled/
and-gone/
from-sight/
but-the-feuds/
still-carve/
deep-shafts/
in-hearts/
and-min
ds/es./
Generations/
are-instilled/
with-wounds/
black-bright./
Scabby-crude./
That-dig/
and-craft-into/

an, asphyxiated, dead, canary,
at, the, very, bottom.

Of-a-pigeonholed/
unmoving-min
e/d./

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Once, upon,
a crime,
unconscionable,
grime,
started to,
eat away,
at me;
mouldy.
But, I said,
“I am fine. At least none of the time.”
as, the snows,
set, in gray,
mixed, with,
green,
coldly.

Twice, upon, a shrine, I battled, a couple,
of, faces,
seperated,
by, a, single, line.
They, went, by, the name, of, Janus.
Cries, and, prattles,
of, zodiac signs,
and, serrated intent,
cut, through,
lives, of, nine,
and, cats, had,
twelve kittens,
in, their places.

Thrice, upon,
a shine,
a magic number,
frequented,
and, a trio, of, doored futures, occurred.
There, was, one,
boring, benign,
and, one,
unrelented,
and, a final one,
so, silly,
that, it, was,
absurd.
I, asked for,
none of them,
instead, for, the windows, above, them.
So, I, cleaned,
polished, and,
brushed, them.
Then, as, I,
declined,
the Moon,
presented,
a fourth option,
deferred.
It, was, a future,
of, mine,
as, free, and,
uncemented,
as, the, upward, cascading, ghost, of, a bird.

And, finally,
hencefourth, upon, that, which, is, divine,
I, now, fly,
over, and,
across, universal divides, filled, with, sky,
knowing,
that, in,
every,
teardrop,
that,
I cry,
lives, great, galaxies, of, wondrous, light,
and, that,
my sadness, creates, the forces, of, life.

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I, awoke, steeped,
in, a, damp, open-grave,
as, unimport, and, hungover,
as, an, imperial-slave.
The, ship’s, surrendering,
mast, wrapped, around,
a, wreckaged,
unpieced, mishap.
The, dispirited, bow, of,
a, capsized, night’s,
deeds, unforgiving,
and, the, bottled,
land, of, the, imperiled, living,
I, spuriously, sent, as, far,
as, I, could, away.
I, knelt, in, paradigm-shifting,
waves, and, I, prayed,
on, an, upset, desolate, sea,
for, safe-passage,
to, some, better,
person’s, day.

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