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Bleeding the Optimism

Rust on padlocked factory gates from tears of broken men. Time has stopped on the golden watch, freeze framed memories of a better past. Scattered faces breed sour looks for brothers of nepotism with handshakes that nearly broke arms. Crouched in side streets observing worldly peasants passing. Slave ganged with vacuum eyes tripping through life's labyrinth. Putrid stares of jealous intent drooling venom; casting adjectives of annihilation, gouging notches from the family tree with a calm, icy incision. Family values dead incestuous intent breeding dole queue bastards. Underground society of leeches bleeding optimism. Ghetto laws written in cordite rooms Switch-blade; preferred method of payment, for dreams inhaled from crack bongs. Joining dots of needle tracks reveals a picture of despair. Deaths lottery, depression, calling out your numbers. Jackpot being long awaited sleep.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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