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All the lights have dimmed

The infertile plains, ablaze

Our last communion

Can we be all alone

I’m all alone now

Steeped in the asphalt

Crumbling high-ways

Connecting the abscess

Like plague stricken veins

Soon to be purged

in the penultimate phase

The bleeding epicenter

Cauterized by flame

Abandon reform

Provision for war

Dig shallow graves for the dead:

Soon there’ll be more

The language of violence

A lingua franca for our age

The law of the sword

Commands our decorum

Deadbolts have fastened

The fault lines have formed

This is no contagion

This is your DNA

Bid farewell

The place called home

Once it’s been laid waste

They'll poison the well

There is a lost world

Being reborn

It flickers like candlelight

In the infertile plains

An unmarked grave

Cradling a babe

In aqueducts of excrement

The seeds germinate

These darkest of days

This haunting malaise

Alone in my armchair

Counting down the days

Take shelter now

And ready yourselves

For the journey ahead

The path is a long one and littered with the dead

Take shelter now

And ready yourselves

For the journey ahead

The path is a long one and littered with the dead

There is a lost world

Being reborn

It flickers like candlelight

Beyond the plains

An unmarked grave

Cradling a babe

In aqueducts of excrement

the seeds germinate

All the lights have dimmed

In their hive-like metropole

In their burning, swarming tumors

Buboes on the landscape

Lanced by disaster

Drained by catastrophe

The metastatic darkness

Spreading like cancer