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[litchcannotwritebro]

Wrote something after a while. Temme whatchu think!

I have given up.

On this summer languor- this doleful heat.

I have become one of the jaded-

With fevered metal heads.

Marionettes trudging in grand, righteous masque-

Clutching raw throats- blood eyed wraiths above deterrent guise. All-

Dilute tongues and unscented incense-prayers;

Chilblain blue toes and purpled lace thighs.

Florid saprophytes; rooting on sunken palms.

A gentle, stretchable crown;

An impalpable snake throttling neck.

Iron fisted mallets battering against skull and sternum:

Gormless pain turns visceral.

Cochineal clusters settled on lung

Sliced open- suppurating alveoli stop ticking; detonate-

Into bloodbursts. Body verges war on self:

A nuclear winter arrives.

 L

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