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Routine signals unleash a piercing

Shriek the only constant

Against my will, I am summoned

Adrenaline surges through my body

Cortisol influx, potent tachycardia

So it continues

Obedient beings

Beckoned by the great machine

Bolt by bolt, my tomb gradually opens

I sigh with relief, temporary release

Dopamine secretion

I gaze upon the broken land

Vision blurred yet still functioning

Displaying optimal behaviours

Internally I weep

And so my peers materialize, body after body

I salute my brothers as swathes gather in uniformity

March of exhaustion

We obey sonic instruction

Calibrated, conditioned, contained

Oh, so obsequious

Endless decaying textures bleed

Into all surroundings

Spectrum of grey

A world beyond the plumes of soot unimaginable

Channels of rusted barbs carve our pathway

Creeping closer to the isolated outpost

A towering monument lording over all

Cutting through the same pollutants which coat my lungs

My moment awaits

To bow to he who poisoned this land

A sculpture carved in his image

My fellow corrupted

Wielding a concrete stare colder than your rhetoric

The master of my destiny

The master of all

Here on my knees, I spit at your effigy

Overcome with hysteria

I shriek at those around me

As viscous foam seeps from my mouth

Madness erupts