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alastar (profile) wrote,
on 10-19-2005 at 9:14pm |
Subject: Wage War
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Caught on beartrapteeth in the territories of our own maps. It seems we've got a traitor in our own falling numbers. Must have been hiding in the basements so clandestine (we thought). Keep your eyes peeled. Backs to the trees and bellys to the dirt and leaves.
Counting.
Counting.
Counting them as they fall.
Turning green to red to orange to yellow and finally brown, decaying on the ground. Curling and withering and shriveling.
Plucking toenails and teeth like petals off of flowers. Necklaces of claw and fang; show your pride. Leave the bullets in our stomachs and the knives in our backs. Face down in the mud and ash and swamps and grass.
We never saw the shadows,
as hard as we tried.
We never saw the shadows,
even as we died.
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jax | 10-20-05 12:00am You know,
we all tend to look etter that way. Galvanized by lead shot letters in our shoulders, treading oceans of catchphrase and byword, if only to spill like slade on steel so that we may not end up bellytosky and lungtowater. Fang in wrist. Blade in hand. Gun in mouth.
But.
We are individuals. I've got fingers in the fishbowl, while I call you threadbare[likeajoke]. Not to mention
my arm is hooked around this column.
I am afloat.
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| jax | Re:, 10-20-05 12:00am You know,
we all tend to look etter that way. Galvanized by lead shot letters in our shoulders, treading oceans of catchphrase and byword, if only to spill like slade on steel so that we may not end up bellytosky and lungtowater. Fang in wrist. Blade in hand. Gun in mouth.
But.
We are individuals. I've got fingers in the fishbowl, while I call you threadbare[likeajoke]. Not to mention
my arm is hooked around this column.
I am afloat.
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| jax | Re: Re:, 10-20-05 12:00am I don't work so well anymore.
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| jax | Re: Re: Re:, 10-20-05 12:01am esp;
"You know, we all tend to look better that way."
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