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The Scheining

from Depraved Indifference by John XII

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A search followed by seizures. Teeth clamped on the gavel handle I will lurch forward, wallowing in knee-jerk displeasures of the flesh, the spectre of my future vocation sharpening the guillotine. The sepulchre unconcerned. The shoreline is leagues astern. A lecturer's broken speech. The more I relent to teachings best left abandoned, the more I begin to reach for treason to seal the breach – for heathens to burn in each far-flung destination within which pilgrims seek to pillage before they greet the guardians of deceit. Immersed in bureaucracy through my inaction. An appeal to hypocrisy, condemning the very tools I used to bury my reason. Twenty-nine years of labour in the mines, emerging soot-soaked into the hard-wired world outside. Blindfold affixed as the lunette descends. Arterial sparks from the motherboard smashed in my stead.

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from Depraved Indifference, released May 10, 2016

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