Spent years deadening my nerves.
Turn violence inward.
Rise to the sight,
Grey industrial haze shroud over the city.
Resign rationale for reptilian calm.
All frustrations mount and spiral,
Anneal my animus.
Slavering teeth rake venom from my tongue.
Dredge up far reaching horrors,
Suffer patiently,
Invite infection to nourish the cancer.
Unparalleled extremes.
Enter, if you will, virgin territory.
No comfort here inside this, the bleak house.
Darkness absolute,
A pure form imitation of life.
Room antiseptic white, blank expressionless.
Sliding hands across the plaster,
Feel for faults and fractures.
My head swimming in circles,
Floating endless slipstream.
Body salamander slick,
Shriveled as a newborn.
Vigor wrenched out in pools of salt water,
Ground to a halt.
Beat of life pulsing intermittently vacillating, indecisive.
Sliding hands across the plaster,
Feel for faults and fractures.
Breathe deep the frigid air,
Cough on the numbing sting of sleeps, pins and needles.
It's like swallowing razors,
Jagged pieces of glass and steel.
Stare into the sun with frozen open eyes.
Searching for a simple diversion,
Self-induced sense deprivation.
Stare into the sun with frozen open eyes.
Icicles form in the furrows of my brows.
Sub-zero and sweating.
Stare into the sun, frozen open eyes.
Turn violence inward.
Rise to the sight,
Grey industrial haze shroud over the city.
Resign rationale for reptilian calm.
All frustrations mount and spiral,
Anneal my animus.
Slavering teeth rake venom from my tongue.
Dredge up far reaching horrors,
Suffer patiently,
Invite infection to nourish the cancer.
Unparalleled extremes.
Enter, if you will, virgin territory.
No comfort here inside this, the bleak house.
Darkness absolute,
A pure form imitation of life.
Room antiseptic white, blank expressionless.
Sliding hands across the plaster,
Feel for faults and fractures.
My head swimming in circles,
Floating endless slipstream.
Body salamander slick,
Shriveled as a newborn.
Vigor wrenched out in pools of salt water,
Ground to a halt.
Beat of life pulsing intermittently vacillating, indecisive.
Sliding hands across the plaster,
Feel for faults and fractures.
Breathe deep the frigid air,
Cough on the numbing sting of sleeps, pins and needles.
It's like swallowing razors,
Jagged pieces of glass and steel.
Stare into the sun with frozen open eyes.
Searching for a simple diversion,
Self-induced sense deprivation.
Stare into the sun with frozen open eyes.
Icicles form in the furrows of my brows.
Sub-zero and sweating.
Stare into the sun, frozen open eyes.