Funeral Rites (With Equestrian Sympathies)
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white,
enamel cages slowly bury sorrow
in brain
dead fever
Time separates
God from the hanger-ons
Death to
the faithful!
Death to
the faithful!
Death to
the faithful!
A moth enters
beneath distant fingers
hung on
brass ornamented claws
illumination
ruptures skin slowly metal
child/the
clap - battered old demigods
heaven
knows where this dream lay buried
fall wearily
downward
heaven
knows where this dream may fall
winter
blood in the tower walls
Who lives
on the fifth floor funeral
safe in
equestrian sympathy?
A muse
demanding to be judged in utter silence?
Bitter
mystery
Soul of
barbed wire, crowned with dust
I hardly
know my brother
cleared
up - laid to rest
this downhill
image weeps and sails out to sea
this downhill
image weeps and sails out to sea
see?
And all
the sorrows of the day
shall hold
their grace against the grey
of simple
mockery on display
of one
another's price to pay
roses scattered
- love decays
And the
funeral rites begin
as a frozen
charmless grin
wipes the
smile from off his face
upon his
memories disgrace
lingering
mark - his last mistake
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double
reunion, least we forget
body wise
filth
words formed
in seedless baptism
plague
of flesh and the rock bleeds red, it bleeds red
defecate
salvation upon presumptive fathers
green hands
prey inside frustration
let us
therefore come boldly unto grace
enter the
hole of earth that we call death
fear not,
fear not
fear not,
fear not
fear not,
fear not
O, the heavenly
chimes, they are singing!
resounding,
deafening, screaming
question
then the question of reason
skin baptised
in treason
body lies
still
a visionless
mind dwells within
body wise
filth
union of
dismantled dreams made flesh
torn asunder
in this nightmare mesh we call life
No salvation
for you brother
No salvation
for you brother
Sour merchants
of the sacred heart,
obscured
by clouds
testaments
of fire and stone
hold the
earth - cracked and frail
green skull,
a dark elaborated mind
choking
lines to this smothered corpse
great mysteries
revealed
the great
mystery revealed
great mysteries
revealed
the great
mystery revealed
And all
the sorrows of the day
shall hold
their grace against the grey
of simple
mockery on display
of one
another's price to pay
roses scattered
- love decays
Fear not
And the
funeral rites begin
as a frozen
charmless grin
wipes the
smile from off his face
upon his
memories disgrace
lingering
mark - his last mistake
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