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Down 
drips the drool from the lips of the fat filthy fool with a grip stiff as death round a slick shiny tool
 as
 he cuts up the young lamb live as it cries out to God:

"Why oh why give a thumb to a slob?

These sick awful sad mis-creations of math... how can we without word turn this mess into tact? To instruct that without 
love, virtue and poise 
to correctly employ the endowment of choice?"

It can read 
it on your heart, it can read it in your eyes, 
it can hear 
it in your voice, it can hear 
it in your lies you
 tell to keep yourself as complacent as you can, so wholly uninformed of the consequences of every vile act orchestrated by the hand in a structure founded on a circular plan 
so configured to prevent the malicious to ascend a location higher than oblivion.

How
 amoebic man stabs grace in the back as she falls to her knees to obey his command, to 
play dumb and to please
, to
 be struck bound and teased
, to
 conclude sick, infected, impaired, and diseased
. Oh, the lows we've achieved 
for some comic relief
 from
 this prank played by wolves 
slyly dressed up as sheep
 veiled
 in hypnotic cloth 
keenly tailored to protect
 an impish facade 
from common 
regard
!

It can read 
it on your heart, it can read it in your eyes, 
it can hear 
it in your voice, it can hear 
it in your lies.

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from The Child We Once Were and the Corpse We Shall One Day Be, released July 27, 2017

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