Epitaph

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  1. LenaSilk

    LenaSilk Nutted

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    Isn't it just fitting
    that in your second sitting
    you looked around and found that
    that old white collar syndrome
    woke up to send you home.
    Drones buzzing your shoulder
    it couldn't get any colder
    but you still pretended to deny
    that Every UNveiled Eye was TELLing you
    that it's O-Ver.
    ('oh but that DavidMuir profile
    doesn't it SO beguile'

    you and your rank and file)

    Well sir it was over from jump street
    But you were so steeped
    In your muse's buzz
    that you went on dreaming
    'I AM the New Order Judge'
    and so decreed to bleed the sheep
    with sweet delusions as they sleep.
    Whatever was not broken you 'fixed'
    ('and forget the rest, it's for the best')
    while across the room your dominatrix
    poured plastic water in everykids lunch
    as you signed a pensive pine 'don't touch
    the wine because that's all mine.'


    Now once again he clammered and
    thrashed about with his beat up hammer
    because the king isn't dead YET is he?
    And he needed to look busy
    as if it somehow mattered

    But you see, NOW do you see
    that the emperor and his coterie
    are all frizzee in suits threadbare
    but the sheep don't know don't care
    while their tin man band
    keeps bungling droll in newflung potholes
    where old soldiers used to march so proudly
    on greenlined streets to the heartbeats
    of countless kindred souls....

    Dad fold up that flag it's just 'too old'
    but soon i'll join you out there in the cold


    * Epitaph *

    So we're back to where we started
    but the freshly departed will still feed
    from the same old treats of gangrenous meat
    served up on K Street by the brothers gore
    and their polihores galore.
    Brace for an obscene encore
    of postethnic epileptic grand mal seizures
    as the gods of futureborne leisures
    invent new mantoys for all the manboys
    that have lost or Never Had the key
    to the Best that Used to be.

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    19-11-2014 (revised)
     
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  2. LenaSilk

    LenaSilk Nutted

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    This was written in the vein of a rap lyric. I'm sure that it reads kind of awkward, but in my own mind most of it flowed very nicely when I was writing it. It's probably just that my brain is so strange compared to normal people.
     
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