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Dawn of the Dead

by Tiffani Travesty

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Dismantled and disorganized Torn apart before your own eyes Zeitgeist from a life in vain Abandoned to the abyss, buried your remains Excoriate flesh, so bountifly bled Maliciously mangle the living dead, Unbury the head from the bleeding earth, Cast your corpse into the void, determine your worth Slay the saboteur, let the blood flow In life and in death as above so below Butcher the betrayer, for he shall not rule Devour the tyrants in power, the feast of fools Shimmer of the scythe in the crimson light, into darkness fall Time descends into depravity and death transcends all Hear the forlorn cries of a ghost in the moon's glow Don't be afraid to die, for we were lost so long ago Slay the saboteur, let the blood flow, In life and death. as above so below Butcher the betrayer, for he shall not rule Devour the tyrants in power, the feast of fools Necromantic tormented Demon, Spells of devilry shall slay all humans Reanimate with a wicked hex Process of destruction, separate them at their necks, Build the mighty skullbeast tall, a monstrous miscreation to end all Lord of this land, you shall be next Fear the skullbeast, or ye shall get wrecked! All who deem themselves worthy to reign supreme Repel into the pit of hell to seek their foolish dreams Find unfathomable darkness, terror and doom May those who dwelled in the land you bled Thy Flesh Consume. Demise waits for thee, necromantic anarchy! Demise waits for thee, necromantic anarchy!
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God-complex from the top down via funnel fans flames that sputter through conspiracy tunnels. Persecution solution the emulsified result, dumb ignorance now prejudice; welcome to the cult. Disestablishment jargon targets the disenfranchised that don't understand, sliding down the pipeline right into authoritarian hands. Wasps in a web, white privilege. Libertarian lone-wolf complex, with an overinflated head. Failure to fall to responsibility when loss befalls, painting sainthood over faces of cruelty, isolating from truth and unity. Fostering further insanity, the hooks hang from an entangled web, ensnaring every turning head. As much as the bait would hate to admit it: they have become hateful and anti-Semitic. "They put abortions in our Pepsi. They're making M and M's less sexy. You're a Nazi for correcting me when I misgender you intentionally." "We're wholesome Christians with family values, we can only do good. You're vile heathen reptiles, drinking children's blood." Scientific accuracy labeled as fallacy, Every opposing institution is the enemy. Disagreement is unpatriotic and treasonous. Conspiracy pipeline breeding disease. Wasps in a web, white privilege. Libertarian lone-wolf complex with an overinflated head.
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What the hell are you waiting for? Extinction or absolution? Empty entombments of deities constrained. Cross-examined DNA, locations of desecration abound. Hollow walls where only phantoms hear, oceans of refuse Remnants refused. Excuses abused, live to lose. The sacred diminish; relinquish your inhibitions. Loose lands sink in abusive hands, fall into the mantle. It is my task to dismantle mankind, blow out the candle, Too late, cannot rewind. Sanity my sickness, so profane a witness to the lucid decline into abyssal unforgiveness. I have obeyed the forces that formed, the woman I made myself and the creature obscure that lies deeper still. Cancerous captor! Reductive fracturer! I want to sink my nails and fangs into the god you made and rip it from your visceral skin until it spills! I cannot trust, betrayal scars carried with silent dignity, Jaded perception, what the hell are you waiting for? What the fuck are you waiting for? Deader still, you never held on. What ingratious void to you hail from, on a golem of stolen lordship? Compassion slowly distorts but leaves intact: what wretchedness corrupts in blood epitaphs, in abandoned, crumbling realms beyond. What the fuck are you waiting for?
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Is this what it means to grow older? An old soul can't grow colder If I've grown wiser I don't know, but a weight has fallen off my shoulders. I'm losing control of all that I let go. My narrative I will own. My blood like magma burns a heart of stone. This is not the apocalypse I prepared for, it is not my life I'm scared for Fear will embrace those who take a stand. Misery and despair kill slowly, convincing pure souls they're unholy The demons of our day we face hand in hand. Are we creation's final verse? May our serenity be your curse. Howl at eternity, burning for the bloodthirsty. Let's go! Joy is the relief when open hearts bleed from anger-stained memories that veins of hate dismember. Dance when blind authority, sorcerers of conformity demand stillness and surrender. Following my heart, faith is a weapon. Bury the threat despite the tension. Fighting through hordes of cruel intentions, our solidarity screams through senseless oppression. Damage me, ravage me, you'll never kill my identity. I laugh at your failed tragedy. I have grasped immortality. I sink my teeth into the sunken cost fallacy. Are we creation's final verse? Let our serenity be your curse. Howl at eternity, burning for the bloodthirsty. Like the morning-star, fall from grace. Let innocence return to the hearts you break. The weight of these chains rusting: Not the end of days but a new today. The meaning inside, my deepest deficits cannot hide. In my favorite absurdity I will abide. The void of nihil cannot bind to loneliness I left to die. Mental deception, I will not live and let live in these lies. Are we creation's final verse? Let our serenity be your curse. Howl at eternity, burning for the bloodthirsty.
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Die for freedom in a rich man's war Die from a gunshot on your walk to the store Die because you can't afford the operation Die from an overdose, die from starvation. Die in the hallway shot full of holes, die in the alley with a begging bowl. Die from suicide because you don't fit in, Living a lie in someone else's skin. The gears have rusted Broke and busted Proletariat rage In the disparity of a new Gilded Age Capital kings laugh on their thrones In kingdoms constructed of the worker's bones Poverty in this corporation nation Classist division breeds blame and hatred We all want unity but I can't get behind The normalised unjustified class divide You might ask well isn't it your own fault Half of you don't care the other half are in a cult They can manipulate the market and not pay tax The bourgeoise shall get the axe Die from opioids that they prescribed Die in the streets beaten and brutalized Die because the cops broke down the wrong door Die in a crowded cage at the border Take your last breath gasping for air Because Millions of people are too selfish to care. Commodified, desocialised, disruptors are vilified No thriving, just scraping by A new age of fascism disguised as innovation Unregulated avarice starves a dying nation Guillotines and bloodstained walls shall render exploiters extinct Proprietary culture programming what we think Paycuts will come at the price of a head Corporate carnage, crypt currency will paint the nation red.
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From sea to shining sea, we sang since infancy. Land of the free only in name, endless wars overseas for capital gain. Destabilizing nations, standing by while the homeless suffer starvation. Funding genocide, turning our backs on those who died. The LGBTQ community says Free Palestine! Muslims and Jews agree, Free Palestine! BLM's decree: Free Palestine! From the river to the sea. Israel can't claim self-defense due to months of killing innocents Bombing schools and starving families, acting on their own unjust authority. Disregarding international law and the laws of their faith. Netanyahu spitting in God's face. Liberate all lands from tyranny, Free Palestine! Biden's hands are blood-red. End apartheid from the river to the sea, ethnic cleansing and bloodshed. Propaganda lies and more, the USA loves a war. Propaganda lies and more ,the USA loves a war. Evangelical Zionists don't care who dies. America is god, they are blind to his lies. Evangelical Zionists don't care who dies. America is god, they are blind to his lies. Ceasefire now! End the silence. Ceasefire now! end the violence!
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Desolater 04:17
Silence slows time, eeking achingly by, swept away by our devices, In a quiet display of riled dismay, for the moment hypnotized. White noise swirls around me in a homogenous gloom of stimulation. My ghost returns from a space in the room, and brings me back from the simulation. My brain sloops down the drain like a kitchen sink. Everything I know is gone and I can't think. I wish I could talk to the moon in the night sky. Like her, I am looking at life from the outside. It all seems superficial from up there. Why do human beings even care? Borrow a high from you and leave in a hurry. Existence is too brief to live with this worry. If I upset you I fear you will desert me. Don't look at me that way, I'd prefer you'd hurt me. Life is just a game and I'm a player with no role. I've already tried now baby, you can't save my soul. I wish I could talk to the moon in the night sky. Like her, I am looking at life from the outside. It all seems superficial from up there. Why do human beings even care? Everyone wants more, I want less. We dissolve into the darkness that suits us best.
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Idolies 05:36
Don't say gay, pray it away Says the new American KKK History rebranded as Critical race theory Anti woke means protect white fury Censorship of our existence Must protect their sacred indifference Oppression requires an opposition Play the nation for fools And then play the victim I won't be claimed as a culture war casualty Keep people's lives out of your policy Bowing down in the solace of lies Ineffectual fools you idolize There is no systematic way to halt The conflict of the MAGA cult Because our government is a corporate shell That profits from this capital hell I won't be claimed as your culture war casualty Keep people's lives out of your policy Bowing down in the solace of lies Ineffectual fools you idolize A fascist nation isn't made in a day It draws closer as they pave the way Rely on fake news biased views and false science To create a web of ignorant reliance We're self-mutilating monsters messing with your heads Teaching inclusion to rip your minds to shreds They're making laws to make sure trans kids are abandoned And the only proof they offer is "let's go Brandon" I won't be claimed as your culture war casualty Keep people's lives out of your policy Bowing down in the solace of lies Ineffectual fools you idolize Trumpism is genocide Trumpism is genocide Trumpism is genocide
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My body eats me alive before I can truly ripen to fruition Decadent hedonism, pleasure distracts my wayward gaze from the woeful menagerie The unrelenting, undefinable yet undisputed entity Known as time Years like teeth made of daggers, carving lines like wounds Deeper than the razor of a new day, sheds the forest consuming me A shadow engulfing the realm of my fading smile I wonder have 'I overstayed my welcome? Has my purpose been clouded by the idea of Loving the person I kept numb and safe under a cloak of doubt and conditioned diminishment? Did I misinterpret the love I admitted to mean a shelter from the storms That rile my heart with a hatred begotten from avenging man's injustices? Sometimes I think I was made for sacrifice I relinquish myself to misery for others, I ask for punishment To be stricken rather than forgiven, self-condemnation I see no change in me, none in the world for all I have accomplished Nostalgia like a fix averts my indecision I don the veil of ignorance to obscure my vision I don't understand what I am but from that which came before and who exists in the fleeting present I want to be beautiful like her, effortlessly confident I am cheap and will always feel derivative of a truth My health and happiness could mean shit if I don't make some difference Every day I don't spill my veins is a fucking miracle.
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Death Wept 07:00
Tears stream from her vacant eyes, I can sympathize Tortured smile, her eternal demeanor This isn't the first time I've seen her I reflect her emotional stare, she knows I see her there Always standing over my shoulder, will I reach out to hold her Yet I sob here reeling against dying light Death wept tonight Pain tingles my nerves as the razor scrapes along It lingers until it's gone Tired and losing the will to fight Death wept tonight Her cold ageless bones they awarn Her black wings have braved many a storm Death has seen the dark of my mind She sobs so I know she's not blind Oh what a world, man has made that leaves our precious souls to fade Laughter and joy: the silver lining A flash so fleeting all gone in such a short time As I lay bleeding would God look me in the eye and say: "Oh my daughter, why do you cry?" I wish I could make myself more open Not in the manner which I have previously spoken Bottling it up until I am broken I hate to burden anyone with such a terrible sight Death wept tonight Death wept tonight You taunt me, you haunt me, when I beg you don't want me What have I done? What you've done to me! When will I be free? Death wept tonight, Darling it's alright This world is cruel but it would be hell for me without you The past is more dead than the angel's bones No one should suffer alone In tenebris vivemus ut unum In tenebris vivemus ut unum

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released January 3, 2024

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