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Compound's walls have fallen

Collapse within the gates

A warning siren trills

Desperate to escape

The hoards stream in

Out people flee

Towards a river of concrete

Trudging toward a border

On the open road

All around destruction

On the open road

Vultures leer from guardrails

On the open road

Corpses pock the highay

On the open road

Masses drink from rancid creeks

Along the breakdown langs

Rank with shit and tailings acid and animal remains

Fording strams of urine

Feet churn through yellow mud

Travelers march

In rags and scum

Super-meth addled cannibal

Strikes into the pilgrim sea

Blood spurts around its muzzle as its teeth sink in arteries

Buildings crumble, brush fires rage

Trashed diary: words melt off pages

Female cadaver shriveled dry

Femur rammed through her thigh

7 men swing dead

From a freeway overpass

Suspended by cable ligature

Hanging above the mass

Blood clots in a ribbon

From broken teeth to chest

Crows & carrion fanciers

Peck the eyeballs from the heads

Limp along twisted wire

Roast a dog on a plastic fire

Screams of the woundsed, the shrieks of the dying

Rusted sign post with an impaled child

Trudging toward a border

On the open road

All around destruction

On the open road

Vultures leer from guardrails

On the open road

Corpses pock the highay

On the open road