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Killing Idols

the scapular of your anguish wounds the insolent chest of your enlightenment with blood a world in disenchantment cries its drunken hymns but only jackals lick the nectar of these pains because the night drives away the naive and innocent and it is with the irreverence of the lost that we cry out loud trying to defile every throne that rises against us the time will come when we will immolate the new messiah in fire placating the wrath of the raging oceans and their deities the insurgent skies and their merciless stains we'll bring back a forgotten golden age and then we'll set all the new traps to drain for the last time the voracity of every idol that is eternalized when we stagger weak across the earth and we allow them to enslave us.

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Date: 3/28/2022 9:33:00 PM
Wow! Marco, this is incredibly fine writing, IMHO. Love the sharp images and the flow of the lines. The last three lines are especially powerful. Thanks for sharing.
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Marco Chies
Date: 3/29/2022 6:49:00 AM
Eventually I like to write these more messianic texts, with subliminal messages that just touch something adjacent and that seems like a kind of ancient wisdom already lost....

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