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Circle In The Sand continues




              For in the depths of time's forgotten embrace,
A world, once lush, now shattered, displaced.
Anteeing up as joker, distant and vague,
I tread through ruins, where memories fade.

Like a deck of cards, scattered in disarray,
remnants of life, dispersed in dismay, disbelief, allbeitMay,see.
Offspring of a bygone era, I wait,
Bound by the moment, in a timeless state 
and endless wave of Leviathan Sea.

Replacement soul hibernates 
within ancient walls, of ancient technology.
Awakening to a world infested 
by sprawling conflicts and complexities, 
Pfizer, booster, ADT.
Drones swarm above, in a superhighway's flight,
While principalities crumble, 
but only of the traditional kind.

A machinery of enigmatic design,
a prism reflecting colors, divine.
Caught in this near-death experience's unfold, uap, 
ufo, virus, injection, transhuman guile foiled.
Where hydroxy and emc scripts are sold 
as skin creams that butter the eye and extra eyelid 
to close.
Where the dead fern grows.

A solemn vow to restart what remains,
To unearth the silence, break free 
from the chains of "Ten Commandments Way,"
for our Phallic Temptation Monument.
For chaos denied the abyss's deep stare,
our hope begins to bloom, a life so precious, 
forbidden and rare.

Antediluvian test patterns and salt, 
post apocalyptic sum, anteeing up 
as joker non descript non chalant unassuming 
nothing and no one, 
but the eyes filter through the desert, 
concrete jungle "to give empty lives a little meaning."

Hoyle our ouija our de scribing 52 card pickup 
of order.
Of- spring back- wait of moment's binding, 
time-capsuled mitochondriac 
system of a down trodden, once bitten, 
arsenic and old lace. 
Hot wiring of chrysalic hibernation 
to infest-info-mining our enemy hoarders, 
accept our social score system, recognition of your plaece
and receive our orders.
Taste the sweet cube under the skin as it melts away the pain.
"Go where everybody knows your name".
With swarm of drones in superhighway
of principalities, thrones...,
A working machine of this pictograph shown, in the
gradient prismatic prism.
proxied as near death experience psychic revelation 
of
hydroxy chlorabiide commercial grade media realicide.

Vow with us to restart what became dug in 
as you give us foothold 
by non prejudiced compliance.
Say nothing, do nothing and it will be done, 
in operation like a household appliance.
As our mercenaries bide and buy quiet time, 
strike at your neighbor, grunt on the front lines.

Copyright © Jude Herrick

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