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Narthex
04:08
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Penitent
A lone demigod
Genuflects
Upon the proud, ancient threshold
Auguries
On either side: gibbets of the traitors
Suspended in motes of fog
Displayed yet forgotten
That which once was
A synecdoche for ephemerality
Now has fallen apart
The ornate tower collapses;
The bell tumbles
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2. |
Compilers
04:14
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Concurrently, I pore over
And journey through
The entrails of existence
The Seventh Circle of Being
The Worm That Will Not Die
Kybernetes
If nothing else
My OODA loop accelerated
Mutatis mutandis
Mapping parameters
An anguished maelstrom
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3. |
Phrenograph
03:38
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Measuring mortality
Lesion phrenology
Sclerotic
Wizened
Prematurely ancient
An absent harvest
A year of night
Damp grain rots
While cheeks sink inwards
A lonely, frostlike torpor
Has settled over me
Extremities snapped
Limbs crumbled
Bad blood is omnipresent
And I am so fucking sorry to be here
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4. |
Locus of Percept
05:37
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Solitary redeemer
Better unlimited, astray
An ideology of eternally turning away
Finally, you and I occupied the Ascension Foundry
A trilateral matrix: you; me; the ether
The cold air burned our lungs
You: ever loquacious; and miserably so
The hubris of limitlessness
The bête noire of yourself and I
Manna from limbo
My well-earned contempt
As you read once again from your smeared palimpsest
Culminating thus:
A welcome severance
Cast from the featureless peak
Falling through clouds
You passed monochrome inverted megaliths
Extending incomprehensibly downwards
And then I occupied the Ascension Foundry
In those lonely moments
Nursing a fine depressant
The fundament of subjectivity
I surveyed my world
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5. |
Otherness to Purity
05:11
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You failed to change
You failed to adjust
You did it to yourself
Other metaphysical damage
You, who dreams of peace
It is you who devours and ruins
You cannot escape your fractures
Binary self, meeting nuanced real
Your sword poised inwards
That blade of Damocles
A rusted, toxic edge:
You continually wound your self
The scabbard is missing
I reject and desert endless betrayal
Not forgiveness, rather dissociation
Emptying myself into an alternate inky void
Metaphorically – literally – you disappear
Elsewhere, in purifying flame
I stride onwards, ever more alone
In this esoteric bleak wood
Overhead, the ravens wheel
Otherness to purity
Hatred and etched charcoal
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6. |
Ex Officio
03:24
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Emerging from nightborne trauma
I have learned my scape, my shape
Standing atop this peak of selfhood
My banners hoisted indefatigably
Limitations overcome
Challengers bested
Primate cretin, ungracious coward
You think you fight to survive
Yet every boon has been granted
Your drive now wasted on ephemera
Adversary of thyself
But for my schadenfreude
I too would hurt
It was a pleasure watching you fall
I stand in triumphant opposition
To all of your weaknesses
My shadow looms over
Self-betrayal and littleness
In miraculous nightmares
These enemies disembowel themselves
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7. |
Précis
05:33
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Billions of virus gods
The Sanhedrin were right
We've missed the opportunity
To grasp what we are
We all fall, but not together
Aggregated, a specieswide cremation
Remember the particular
Every instance of a new death
My descent is a proud solypsis
Founded upon ascension
Yours represents merely a sinking into muck
So we wend towards our destination
Oblivious to oblivion
Our skin petrochemical
Heady fumes; the fire won't take
The hour is late
Yet the sky still darkens
The feast is cold
And the company dull
Past time to abort the endeavour
The forest closes around me
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8. |
Kohen Gadol
06:00
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Once, I as proud autarch
Thought my perimeter clear
The spearhead was fragmented then lost
Yesterday a weapon, now mere crutch
Soaring aquiline
To tumbling blackbird
A vanishing painting
Cryosphere of solitude
Slouching into coniferous darkness
Forest of the esoteric
Above and ahead, a gradient from grey into black
Clasping a woodcut of the firmament
While the cosmic abyss unfurls above me
In the clearing I meet true emptiness
Poised lotuslike as the acrid fire creeps then engulfs
Ashes from black to grey and even white
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