You were a child when you first felt it The mass hiding inside you Its silent, fibrous bulk within Pressing itself into delicate tissues And so you bore its weight While: Your bones twisted around it You ate until you retched It grew harder to breathe The string in your back frayed You put a good face on it Fear cradled your soul in its palm In...Learn More

You have nothing to say and you’re saying it The words are empty, but still they reverberate No sources or points of reference Just impulse, momentum, and optimization You have nothing to say and you’re saying it You found the seam between truth and nonsense: How many heads can you force it into? How many mouths are compelled to repeat it? Will...Learn More

They will carve you with steel And scorch you with acid But it’s not in your nature to die And though you spring from their flesh They’ll curdle your blood with unseen energies But it’s not in your nature to die Always keep growing and changing Never stop spreading...Learn More

They say that time is infinite Not for length but for divisibility Half-seconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds Downwards and smaller forever Trillions of miniscule nows Packed together and barely considered As they shuffle past In the refugee column of personal history They slip from notice Through cracks that yawn At the edges of thought The grains...Learn More

I saw a man crushed in the subway Four years back Some college kid from Queens Traded shoves on the platform With some desperate debased drunk Who dragged them to the tracks As the train came His scramble too slow by a second Surprise on his face When they wrenched his pulp From between the car and the platform I was gone by the time he...Learn More

Built from blind faith, passed down From self-induced fantasies Turn a page to justify Conjuring power, it opens wide On your seventh day Is that how it's done? Twisting your eyes to perceive all that you want To assume from ignorance Inflicting wound with a cross-turned-dagger Inside Crystal Mountain, evil takes its form Inside Crystal...Learn More

After all I’ve done for you The countless secrets I laid bare This is how you repay me? And in return for a victimless crime Committed in shadow, far from its eye For this, the crown has unmanned me Force-feed me the chemical scalpel Slice me up down below I slip from this world like an exile But as the current fades from the circuits The...Learn More

Try harder It's not good enough Work harder It's not finished yet It doesn't hurt bad enough You're not you without failure You have no name but weakness...Learn More