|A vague undertone of desperation|

All the people:
Their plead-eyes beg
For that shapely, entertaining
Aesthetic that coddles; they ask
For the snuggle of the familiar.
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The lovebite of disaster
|
They recognize with the rheumy film
Of senility, shapes that look
Vaguely humanoid—
Dreams that appear
Vaguely real.
.
|
.
Knowledge burns.
It eats at the unknown,
And the void snatches wildly
About in a bid to quash the tongues.
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An amoeba rigidified with confidence,
Flexible as the ancient rivulets
That lick acid through stone,
Knowledge quivers.
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Somewhere, chorales testify.
.
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.
Everywhere are
The people that
Pantomime contentment
|
Yearning for explosions
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They ask for entertainment
In the shape of what they know.

Pen'd by
@d-pend
12/12/17