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The Malignant, Profane Heart

from The Nihil of Vibrant Soul by Annulment

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That it forfeits its kingdom
or fails to overtake it,
and I hope that so much dies
or is left on its sickbed
to mull over its waste and fear
and that we leave it to rot in its quarters
Reactive decay, never having felt
the spark of our lordless bloom;

for I tire of teaching the quivering
to walk on florid legs
or feral kindness offered in vain
as the first gestures of love

Stay paradise or rebellion
neither holy nor true
I lay their ashes at my feet,
a list of evicted numbers
I deny your thirst and purpose;
of silent, inverted hymns;
of failed fruition, a war of ‘I’,
leave with nothing, hail the empty!

The dead will sing in the desert –
Lean in, I don’t care who you are;
poison your kiss, and I’ll lend you a song
I’ll clothe you in black and quiet; sleepy, heroin-abyss
My loves, we’re all going to die someday

May our last light be the ruin of their fucking world;
raze their coffers – a toast to the end
A crushing love meant to suffocate,
they called it ‘demiurge’ -
born from the eyes of the blind
It’s revocation, foreclosure, it’s sprouting slum;
it’s the banquet of the all-fucking pigs!
Blessed are the clerical meek,
with an 8-digit check, for they make easy prey!

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from The Nihil of Vibrant Soul, released November 15, 2017

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