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Despoliation
08:19
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Addicted to demise
Endless grey murk
Sat heavy upon undulation
The hominid weaklings
Fail to perceive, fail to act
A simulacrum of virtuousness
The stone is cast
Vapour writhes in its wake
A surface seething gently
Dark emerald and sickly pale
Far below that, anguish
Crisis surges from the depths
Seasons whirl
Gradually blackening
The process accelerates
Action and reaction
Inviting to despoiling
You claim 'eerie prescience':
I laugh at your aggrandisement
Things have always been thus
You just failed to notice until now
If I said that existence is Cartesian
You would say: no, my experience is not
If I am bereft, a new lover does
Not make me who I was before
Bone dice have been rolled
Reversal is impossible
Forfeited mechanism
The arrow’s oncoming
Or poisoned boulder
Picking up speed
Your self-deceit punished
By inexorable energy
Your preference is of no consequence
The skeins have been plotted
When this has been expropriated
And all has been expropriated
And your endowment has been abolished
Then you will know the wealth of my cruelty
Lyrics (c) D. Nahum 2016
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Landschaft
06:01
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Undulating black globe
Soaked in filthgiving mist
Unending trails, grey grass
Amber sings on velvety black
Phobos transpiring
This enclosing openness
Stretching a ox hide tent
Across an infinite space
Caves open to plains
This has always been the way
We are recalling now
This is sacrificial land
Beneath burdened brow
An empty cavity
A burning ox heart lies
Upon a soggy field
Stinging smoke wafts across
Overwhelming the damp air
Distantly, a voice ululating
From beneath a twisting arch
Too distant; distorted
By elements and time
"These imposters sold charms that made people invulnerable in warfare and fortunate in hunting and preserved them from all danger"
(Charles-Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg)
The homeostasis of a species
Like a pendulum knocking
And then overcompensating
Artificial magnificence
Godlike reconstructionism
Beneath uncaring whims
A Minotaur with impunity
This cycle unwinding:
Irrefragable but undefinable
(c) D. Nahum 2016
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Exultation
13:29
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I reached toward obscure galaxies
Lifting my fingers to the sky
Like a lone, wizened tree
Amnesia's totem
Black sigils carved
Monstrous in scope:
Visible from space
Nightborne cities of gold
Ice and concrete
They can wither
And be overrun
Cloaked by an aura:
I know I will die
Utter powerlessness
Liberation
Constellations awry
A nauseating spiral
From well to well
But here, in the ephemeral
I cannot see far
Surrounded by immediacy
Myopia unbound
Here, in the ephemeral
I cannot see straight
Existence in worthless chunks
Intuition scratched aside
A flint dagger, once used to pry
Now used to obscure and maim
I point accusingly at the uncaring sky
Eschatological exceptionalism
For a brief moment, I forget that I will die
A contumelious de-realisation
An ex cathedra credo of deep power
(Simultaneously, shortsighted onanism)
(c) D. Nahum 2016
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Estuary
07:29
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Opening, flight
Corridors end in doorways
Above plateaus
Everything is apocalypse
Branches angular
Perpendicular to mud
Burning fitfully
A pall of smoke, lightless
Once creek, today mere gulch
Wetland sodden; cracked grey now
The bones of flightless birds
Thoughtlessly scattered
Parched in the dry season
Drowned in the wet season
It was not always thus
Invidious one
You unwittingly seek
Profound fire
A primitive alchemy
Purification
This grove has dried and died
With time it will crumble altogether
The completion of life
Bloodlessness
Logos spermatikos
Departure and return
A course of filth
The cycle of the wyrm
Grandiose hideousness
Winter trees aching
A spring ratcheted to
Near breaking
(c) D. Nahum 2016
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