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FACING THE REAPER, I STILL LAUGH

One day, life will leave my battered carcass. One day, I will no longer belong to this rotten world. Today, my suicidal urges mock Death with laughter. I waste the breath of life that my universal force gave me freely. I came from the darkness, and I shall end in the furnaces of my own destruction. Doing good is a duty, to soothe the wrath of the Creator. I will end in the flames of my own hell. Like all those innocent souls, I too have suffered. I know every face of death. I have worn every mask of misery. I am but an ignorant man, aware of his ignorance, Thirsty for knowledge like the builders of the pyramids. I chose to laugh so my demons would remain silent. Since I learned to walk, my tears have dried. I stand for truth, justice, liberty, equality, and righteousness. I believe fraternity is an absurd notion, drenched in hypocrisy. I hate the racists who preached humanism and universalism Only to sanctify racialism and supremacism.

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