| In some hell dug miles below, I pray
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| As down here, we’ve all met God
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| Dried mud on the wall, a portrait blessed
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| Peasant-bound in this hole,
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| So I look to the wall
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| And it speaks: «Sun set. |
| Why rest? |
| All fall. |
| We crawl.»
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| But as I begin to decay my bladder spirals out of control
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| And as I soil my cloths these lashings fall as my back begins to mold
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| Contour to the pain that I don’t feel in but outside
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| These tears of stitched lips, I cry out of remorse
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| Eat the bugs I’m fed,
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| Textures of almond brittle
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| Hug the chains that leave hickies on my wrists
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| Link all the decades before this to fake your mind
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| Mud God, come help: «Sun set. |
| Why rest? |
| All fall. |
| We crawl.»
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| Through eyes full of dirt you wouldn’t see much but shit
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| Not true; |
| our hope was lost before all of this
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| Even in my last hours I find my place and think of you
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| These tears of stitched lips, I don’t cry out of remorse
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| I cry for something more…
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| (atoms splitting, callous thickening, bridges burning, paradigms shifting,
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| something’s building) |